Clearing Land

by Jane Brox

Book Overview

"A moving, graceful elegy for the American farm." --Larry Zuckerman, author of The Potato "Nonfiction literature of a high and lasting order . . . Clearing Land , [Brox's] third book, parlays the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0865477280
• ISBN13: 9780865477285
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

An emotional and at times spiritual remembrance

Clearing Land: Legacies Of The American Farm combines memoir and history, drawing upon the author's own experience growing up on a family farm with the economic realities that are forcing such farms to extinction in the modern day. Poetic in its reminiscence of a daily life deeply intertwined with nature, cultivating plants and animals, and the joy of simply being alive, Clearing Land is a powerful firsthand testimony sure to evoke memories both pleasant and questionable of those who also lived and worked in agriculture. An emotional and at times spiritual remembrance.