Isbn: 9780865470521 - gift of good land: further essays cultural and agricultural (11 résultats)

Paperback. Etat : Good. The essays in The Gift of Good Land are as true today as when they were first published in 1981; the problems addressed here are still true and the solutions no nearer to hand. The insistent theme of this book is the interdependence, the wholeness, the oneness of people, land, weather, animals, and family. To touch one is to tamper with them all. We live in one functioning organism whose separate parts are artificially isolated by our culture. Here, 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. …

paperback. Etat : Very Good. first edition,5ptg; FIFTH IMPRESSION. VERY GOOD Condition PAPERBACK. clean, solid,bright; BLACK titles on WHITE SINE & COVER BORDERS. cOVER SHOWS MAN ON BACK OF BIG WHEELED MACHINE.(HORSE DRAWN ) ; 281pg pages; 24 ESSAYS.Peru.Native Grasses.Horse Drawn Tools.A Good Scythe.Seven Amish Farmers.Elmer Lapps place.…

Paperback. Etat : Very Good +. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. First Edition Thus. Published simultaneously in cloth and paperback. In white wraps with some creasing to spine. Jacket is unclipped and glossy with slight fading to spine. A very nice copy. 1st Printing.

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Etat : Good. Ex-library copy with usual markings.

paperback. Etat : Very Good. May have light to moderate shelf wear and/or a remainder mark. Complete. Clean pages.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good +. 2'nd Printing. SUBTITLED : `Further Essays Cultural and Agricultural '. The jacket blurb for this 281 page volume speaks of Berry's `crafted elegance of prose'. UNillustrated. Read more about : The Problem of Scale. Also: consequence, power scythe, instinct, bale string, Sulphur Kentucky, apologists, and Papago farmers. Cond : Card wrapper is white with silver lettering in light yellow dust jacket which is price-clipped. Cover image is of a farmer riding a steel-wheeled seeder. Clean. No names nor marks. Binding is started at page 10. Light general wear. Excellent reading copy. QUote (p. 190) : " ._._. about this renewal of interst in working horses. Like a good many farmers who grew up using horses and who love them, Nick (Coleman) never did entirely quit using them; he always kept a horse ot two around to do odd jobs and to cultivate ._._._. . " Size: 8vo.…

Soft cover. Etat : As New. Trade paperback with flaps, glossy yellow spine, back wrapper and front borders, a white and black illustration of farmer in tractor in brown and black on front wrapper, 281 pages, praise on back from Washington Post Book World, Philadelphia Inquirer, Edward Abbey and others. Mint.…

paperback. Etat : New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.