SECOND PERSON RURAL: More Essays of a Sometime Farmer.
by Perrin, Noel
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- Hardcover
- first
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- Very near fine in dark green cloth in a like dustjacket./dark green cloth in a like
- ISBN 10
- 0879233419
- ISBN 13
- 9780879233419
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About This Item
Boston:: Godine,, (1980.). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in dark green cloth in a like dustjacket.. First printing. Second volume of essays by this urban man turned framer and teacher, now living in Thetford Vermont and teaching at Dartmouth. The NY Times Review stated that "Perrin makes a fine defense of country living, not as a retreat from the world but as a place to use one's talents to battle it out. These essays for guaranteed to amuse confirmed urbanites and set them dreaming of the country." Included are such topics as lamb to lamb chop, winter in the woods, Vermont silences and more - but despite the often light-hearted tone, but the underlying theme - how to preserve and protect the land - is serious. Illustrated by F. Allyn Massey.152 pp.
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- Title
- SECOND PERSON RURAL: More Essays of a Sometime Farmer.
- Author
- Perrin, Noel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very near fine in dark green cloth in a like dustjacket.
- Jacket Condition
- dark green cloth in a like
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0879233419
- ISBN 13
- 9780879233419
- Publisher
- Godine,
- Place of Publication
- Boston:
- Date Published
- (1980.)
- Keywords
- vermont, rural life, agriculture, new england,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Essays;
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