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Author | : John Lane |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2023-11-01 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0820365459 |
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While scouting sites for geology field trips, poet and naturalist John Lane encountered deep gullies created between the Civil War and the 1930s contributed to by his mother’s tenant farming family and their rural neighbors in Piedmont South Carolina. This brush with the poor farming practices of the past leads Lane into an exploration of his own family’s complicated history and of the larger environmental forces that have shaped the region where he chooses to live. With his sister as guide, Lane descends into the gully of his own childhood to uncover memories of a loving but alcoholic mother and a suicidal father. Back and forth, the narrative progresses from depictions of the land—particularly the overgrown and neglected places that hold stories and mysteries of the region—to Lane’s ever-deepening search.He wonders how he, a college professor and husband settled into middle-class life, has emerged from the chaos of his family’s past. Along the way, we meet heroic Depression-era geologists, fascinating colleagues, and troubled ancestors. Lane’s extraordinary ability to weave personal history together with explorations of the natural world will remind readers of the works of Loren Eiseley and Terry Tempest Williams.
Author | : John Lane |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2023-11 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0820365467 |
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Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 1834 |
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Total Pages | : 660 |
Release | : 1881 |
Genre | : Missions |
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Author | : Paul S. Sutter |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2015-12-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0820348090 |
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Providence Canyon State Park, also known as Georgia’s “Little Grand Canyon,” preserves a network of massive erosion gullies allegedly caused by poor farming practices during the nineteenth century. It is a park that protects the scenic results of an environmental disaster. While little known today, Providence Canyon enjoyed a modicum of fame in the 1930s. During that decade, local boosters attempted to have Providence Canyon protected as a national park, insisting that it was natural. At the same time, national and international soil experts and other environmental reformers used Providence Canyon as the apotheosis of human, and particularly southern, land abuse. Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies uses the unlikely story of Providence Canyon—and the 1930s contest over its origins and meaning—to recount the larger history of dramatic human-induced soil erosion across the South and to highlight the role that the region and its erosive agricultural history played in the rise of soil science and soil conservation in America. More than that, though, the book is a meditation on the ways in which our persistent mental habit of separating nature from culture has stunted our ability to appreciate places like Providence Canyon and to understand the larger history of American conservation.
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Total Pages | : 638 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Environmental law |
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Author | : Wendell Berry |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781578069927 |
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"Whether we know it or not, whether we want to be or not, we are members of one another." Since 1960, Wendell Berry (b. 1934) has produced one of the most substantial and consistently thematic bodies of work of any modern American writer. In more than fifty books in various genres-novels, short stories, poems, and essays-he has celebrated a life lived in close communion with neighbors and the earth and has addressed many of our most urgent cultural maladies. His collections of essays urge us to think and act responsibly as members of a community-both human and natural. Volumes of his poems seek to wed us to nature and realign our vision with its mysteries. His growing Port William cycle of novels offers us a fictional model for understanding, for compassion, and for living in constant regard for others. Conversations with Wendell Berry gathers for the first time interviews with the writer, ranging from 1973 to 2006, including one never before published. For readers acquainted with Berry's work, this volume offers insights available nowhere else. It reveals succinctly the main currents of his life's work. What emerges is a citizen-writer profoundly affected by cultural crises at home and in the world. Morris Allen Grubbs directs the Preparing Future Faculty Program in the graduate school at University of Kentucky, where he was a student of Berry's. He is editor of Home and Beyond: An Anthology of Kentucky Short Stories. Photograph-Wendell Berry by Pam Spaulding, courtesy CJF
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry |
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Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1948 |
Genre | : Agricultural policies and programs |
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Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry |
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Total Pages | : 1872 |
Release | : 1948 |
Genre | : Agricultural policies and programs |
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Author | : United States. Congress Senate |
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Total Pages | : 2116 |
Release | : 1947 |
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