The Gift of Good Land: Further Essays Cultural and Agricultural - Softcover

Berry, Wendell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1582434840 ISBN 13: 9781582434841

Publisher: Counterpoint LLC, 2009

Synopsis

The 24 essays in The Gift of Good Land cover a variety of subjects, from the author's journeys to the Peruvian Andes, to Amish country to study the evolution of ancient agricultural practices. Wendell Berry develops the compelling argument that the ""gift"" of good land has strings attached. We have it only on loan and only for as long as we practice good stewardship.

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Review:

"These books ["Recollected Essays "and "The Gift of Good Land"] are the kind that you sp months with, hate to give up, and plan to return to soon and often. There is much pure pleasure in them, both in the spare and crafted eloquence of their prose, and in the breadth and depth of their content. They're reference works of the body and soul..." --"The Washington Post Book World" "These pieces are angry, urgent, courageous, joyous and reaffirming." --"Philadelphia Inquirer" "These books �"Recollected Essays "and "The Gift of Good Land"� are the kind that you sp months with, hate to give up, and plan to return to soon and often. There is much pure pleasure in them, both in the spare and crafted eloquence of their prose, and in the breadth and depth of their content. They're reference works of the body and soul..." --"The Washington Post Book World" "These pieces are angry, urgent, courageous, joyous and reaffirming." --"Philadelphia Inquirer" "These books ["Recollected Essays and "The Gift of Good Land] are the kind that you sp months with, hate to give up, and plan to return to soon and often. There is much pure pleasure in them, both in the spare and crafted eloquence of their prose, and in the breadth and depth of their content. They're reference works of the body and soul..." --"The Washington Post Book World "These pieces are angry, urgent, courageous, joyous and reaffirming." --"Philadelphia Inquirer

About the Author:

Well Berry has worked a farm in Henry County, Kentucky, for some two decades. He is a past fellow of both the Guggenheim Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, and he received an award for his writing from the National Institute and Academy of Arts and Letters in 1971. He has emerged as an eloquent spokesman for conservation, common sense, and sustainable agriculture, topics he has pursued in The Unsettling of America and in Meeting the Expectations of the Land (coedited with Wes Jackson and Bruce Colman). His poetry includes A Part, The Wheel and Collected Poems: 1957-1982. His novels have included Nathan Coulter and A Place on Earth, and among his other collections of essays are Recollected Essays: 1965-1980 and Standing by Words. He is a writer with a rare combination of intelligence, eloquence, and integrity; as Wallace Stegner has written, "It is hard to say whether I like this writer better as a poet, an essayist, or a novelist. He is all three, at a high level."

About this edition

• Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1582434840
• ISBN 13: 9781582434841
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304