This Gentle Land: Growing Up in the 1930's and 40's

by Ruth Stewart

Book Overview

This Gentle Land is a blend of humor and pathos as it records the antics and hard work of six lively children of the Lassiter family who lived on a North Carolina farm in the middle of the 20th century. It portrays the parental strengths of love and faith in spite of the hardships of droughts, floods, a dust storm and a tornado.

It captures the sense of farm life as it was lived when hoes and hands were used more than machinery.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 059547263X
• ISBN13: 9780595472635
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"