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Published by San Francisco: North Point Press, 1981, 1981
Seller: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, U.S.A.
sewn PAPERBACK, white paperback with separate very good dust-jacket, very good lightly used copy, opens easily to page 11. previous owner's name. BERRY, WENDELL. The gift of good land: further essays, cultural and agricultural. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1981, second printing, xviii, 281pp., . Dust-jacket design by David Bullen. In the twenty-four essays of this collection, Wendell Berry stresses the carefully modulated harmonics of indivisibility in culture and agriculture, the interdependence, the wholeness, the oneness, of man, animals, the land, the weather, and the family. To touch one, he shows, is to tamper with them all. Here he continues issues first raised in The Unsettling of America; the problems addressed there are still with us and the solutions no nearer to hand. Mr. Berry writes of his journeys to the highlands of Peru, the deserts of southern Arizona, and the Amish country to study traditional agricultural practices. - CONTENTS: An agricultural journey in Peru -- Three ways of farming in the Southwest -- The native grasses and what they mean -- The International Hill Land Symposium -- Sanitation and the small farm -- Horse-drawn tools and the doctrine of labor saving -- Agricultural solutions for agricultural problems -- Energy in agriculture -- Solving for pattern -- The economics of subsistence -- Family work -- The reactor and the garden -- A good scythe -- Looking ahead -- Home of the free -- Going back, or ahead, to horses -- A few words for motherhood -- A rescued farm -- An excellent homestead -- Elmer Lapp's place -- A talent for necessity -- New roots for agricultural research -- Seven Amish farms -- The gift of good land. 9780865470521 ISBN 0865470529.
Published by San Francisco: North Point Press, 1997, 1997
Seller: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, U.S.A.
PAPERBACK, cover price $11.00, fresh attractive copy, appears unused. BERRY, WENDELL. Remembering: a novel. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1997, 4th printing, 124pp., . After losing his right hand in a farm accident, Andy Catlett realizes a renewed sense of kinship with the land and the past. 9780865473317 ISBN 0865473315.
Published by San Francisco: North Point Press, 1996, 1996
Seller: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, U.S.A.
PAPERBACK, cover price $13.00, fresh attractive copy, appears unused. BERRY, WENDELL. A place on earth: a novel. Revision. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1996, 7th printing of revised edition, 317pp., . Mat Feltner struggles to accept the loss of his son as the rest of the Port William community watches the progress of World War II. 9780865470446 ISBN 0865470448.
Published by Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 2000, 2000
Seller: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, U.S.A.
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Berry, Wendell, 1934-. Life is a miracle: an essay against modern superstition. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 2000, 153pp., very good dust-jacket, very good blue and green hardcover. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on front endpaper For Elizabeth with good wishes Wendell Berry 6/4/00. "In Life is a Miracle, Wendell Berry urges us to begin a "conversation out of school." Believing we are on a course of arrogant and dangerous behavior in science and other intellectual disciplines, this proclamation against modern superstition recommends a shift in priorities and goals. Berry observes, "it is clearly bad for the sciences and the arts to be divided into 'two cultures.' It is bad for scientists to be working without a sense of obligation to cultural tradition. It is bad for artists and scholars in the humanities to be working without a sense of obligation to the world beyond the artifacts of culture." They must be the subjects of one complex conversation." - CONTENTS: Ignorance -- Propriety -- On Edward O. Wilson's Consilience -- Reduction and religion -- Reduction and art -- A conversation out of school -- Toward a change of standards -- Some notes in conclusion. 9781582430584 ISBN 1582430586.