First Person Rural: essays of a sometime farmer.
Language: English
Published by David R. Godine, Publisher, Boston, 1990
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- Softcover
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First softcover printing, 1990. of the book c.1978 by Noel Perrin. A good copy, illustrated with black & white cartoonish drawings. No markings inside, except penciled price on front endpaper. Cover is beige in front and back but light green on the spine. Red lettering and illustration of a sheep in front. Some light fading at top edge and a pencil marking: "Siskiyou Milk". 124 p. First of a series of four "Person Rural". Perrin taught environmental studies at Dartmouth College and farmed in Vermont. Some of the essays were published in Vermont Life, Country Journal and the New Yorker.
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- Title
- First Person Rural: essays of a sometime farmer.
- Author
- Perrin, Noel
- Publisher
- David R. Godine, Publisher, Boston
- Publication year
- 1990
- Condition
- Very good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 087923833X
- ISBN 13
- 9780879238339
- Illustrator
- Harvard, Stephen
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Item weight
- 204 grams
- Dimensions
- 15.29 centimeters width by 22.86 centimeters height by 1.17 centimeters depth
- Seller catalogs
- Country Life, Essays, Memoirs
These essays, all concerned with countryish things, range from intensely practical to mildly literary. Transplanted from New York fifteen years ago and now a real-life Vermont farmer, Noel Perrin candidly admits to hilarious early mistakes (In Search of the Perfect Fence Post) while presenting down-to-earth advice on such rural necessities as Sugaring on $15 a Year, Raising Sheep, and Making Butter in the Kitchen.
But, as everyone who has read his essays in The New Yorker, Country Journal, and Vermont Life
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About the Author
Noel Perrin was an American essayist and professor of English and environmental studies at various colleges, including Dartmouth and Warsaw University. He was the author of thirteen books and a frequent contributor to Vermont Life, Country Journal, The New Yorker, and other magazines.
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