Going to Ground: Simple Life on a Georgia Pond - Softcover

Amy Blackmarr (author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0865549052 ISBN 13: 9780865549050

Publisher: Mercer University Press, 2007

Synopsis

Unfulfilled by city life, Amy Blackmarr sold her thriving Kansas business and returned to the pine woods of South Georgia to follow a dream. For five years, she lived in her grandfather's "old scarecrow of a fishing cabin" beside the pond. Now with warmth, humor, and a strong, clear voice, she brings her rustic world alive in stories about her dogs, life without hot water, visits from an alligator, and the life and death of her grandmother. Blackmarr also writes candidly of the demons she must conquer in her own nature to become the person she longs to be while continually proving there is wonder to be found in every moment. In the tradition of Thoreau's "Walden and Annie Dillard's "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Going to Ground is a tribute to the transcendent beauty of nature and the joys, fears, lessons, and serenity of the solitary life. Originally published in 1997, Mercer University Press proudly introduces this new edition.

About this title

Review:

"Elegant...the graceful pieces are imbued with a sense of calm and delight in nature."

About the Author:

Amy Blackmarr is a Self Fellow at the University of Kansas.

About this edition

• Publisher: Mercer University Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0865549052
• ISBN 13: 9780865549050
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 170