The Quarter-Acre Farm - Couverture souple

Warren, Spring

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1580053408 ISBN 13 : 9781580053402

Editeur : Seal Press, 2011

Synopsis

Spring Warren's humorous account of her quest to grow most of what her family consumed for one year in her suburban yard

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Spring Warren is the author of the novel Turpentine, a bronze medalist for the 2007 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award and a San Francisco Chronicle Notable Book of 2007. Warren comes from Wyoming, where here family has lived since 1870. A true gal of the American West, she grew up in Casper and at a ranch in the Black Hills that her parents still own. She's been a schoolteacher (children bring cow testicles to school for show and tell in Wyoming), raised pigs, killed rattlesnakes, hunted, and fished. When she moved toward writing, she was a working as a short order cook, selling worms and maple bars to campers, and teaching swimming lessons in the shadow of Devil's Tower, and was living in a trailer where she washed clothes in a wringer washer and dried them by the heat of the wood stove.Warren now lives in Davis, California, an educational hub of the agricultural world, in the Central Valley, the world's most productive agricultural region.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Seal Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1580053408
• ISBN 13: 9781580053402
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 340
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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