The Man Who Created Paradise: A Fable

by Gene Logsdon

Book Overview

Gene Logsdon's The Man Who Created Paradise is a message of hope at a time when the very concept of earth stewardship is under attack. The fable, inspired by a true story, tells how Wally Spero looked... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821414070
• ISBN13: 9780821414071
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

A jewel

This is such a small little book to have inspired me so much. Logsdon writes even better than is usual for him. You can almost feel his own sickness as he surveys the disemboweled hills and sallow culture of a strip-ming community - smell the richness of earth and pasture as he turns down a gravel drive - and feel hope sprout where death had come. The photos are perfect. The parable is immensely moving. Is it all true? I don't know, but it ought to be. It moved me to make it true in my little corner of paradise lost

Tasty but tiny!

Mr. Logsdon's book is an easy, inspiring read. It left me yearning for a simpler life... and a thicker book! Stocked with full-page photos, the book consumes all of 15 minutes to read its 36 pages of text. I can highly recommend his books, but with this one, I felt it was over too quickly.

One Empire's Spoils Is Another's Paradise of Spirit

Gene, I can't wait to meet you. And seriously, I'd better not wait any longer. I've known the country you describe. Comforting."Paradise" is no fable of spirit. It is inspirational and healing. No doubt you have met my father or at least aspects of a Walter, born in '26, tied to the farm no matter his circumstances. He farmed with a dozer and rather well at times. I write you here to tell the reclaimation of spirit and family. At 75 now he has built his planting 'rig' and is on top of the world with satisfaction.We've always got along fantastic, he and I, but apart; deeply apart. I am determined now, to learn that dozer, that crane, that rig, to make a paradise from paradise lost. Hear the walls fall, the walls I put up, the walls I push away with his "Alice".You and your generation are the "optomists supreme", practical and pragmatic to perfection. Cheeers!