Country Acres: Country Wisdom for the Working Landscape

by David Larkin and Sabra Larkin

Book Overview

Here is the successor to COUNTRY WISDOM, the first in David Larkin's series of handsomely illustrated and informative books about country ways and country life.COUNTRY ACRES takes the reader from the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395771889
• ISBN13: 9780395771884
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.9" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

Over-the-top Appreciation of Rural Scenery

This is a visually fabulous coffee-table book about livestock, barns, trees, fields, vegetables, and farming implements. It's sort of a photographic companion to "Charlotte's Web." Rural life has never looked so gorgeous as it does in this book. There are no people in this countryside, no grime, and certainly no dead cars or junk in yards or on sagging porches. (Caution to carnivores: Once you have studied the beautiful and soulful farm animals and their young, you will not want to eat meat again.) Barns, birch trees, fences, snow -- everything is perfect. This is a strange book, one that idealizes the Northeast countryside so powerfully that it's a little strange, really. Best enjoyed by city slickers.