Clearing Land: Legacies of the American Farm by Brox, Jane - 2004

New York: North Point Press, 2004. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. New York: North Point Press, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Fine/Fine. Fine First Edition in clean unclipped dust jacket. As-new condition. Clean beige boards with beige cloth spine, gold metallic lettering on spine. No fading, bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean and bright. No names, writing or marks. 191 pages. Clean jacket is unchipped, no wear, no tears, not price clipped; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Granddaughter of immigrant New England farmers whose way of life she memorialized to much acclaim in her first two books, the author explores the place of the family farm as it has evolved from the Pilgrims' brutal progress at Plymouth to the modern world, where much of our food is produced by industrial agriculture while the small farm is both marginalized and romanticized. A moving, graceful elegy for the American farm by way of narrating what land has meant to her family and herself..