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Speak to the Earth: Pages from a Farmwife's Journal Paperback - 2011

Name: Speak to the Earth: Pages from a Farmwife's Journal
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Author: Peden, Rachel
ISBN: 9780253223425

by Rachel Peden; Foreword by Scott Russell Sanders

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A farmwife for 45 years, Rachel Peden believed that the family farm's best crop is a "harvest of the spirit." In Speak to the Earth, she looks at life--domestic and wild, human and critter--through the eyes of someone who witnesses nine seasons of the year rather than the typical four. Peden views the farm as "a place of opportunity simultaneous with obligation, an immaculate fitting-together of plant and animal life." Each year yields an abundance of small, priceless observations. Through her writings, Peden encourages readers to appreciate both the simple pleasures in life as well as the more profound qualities embodied in family and neighbors, mallards and ladybugs, possums and pigs, and the irresistible characteristics of old houses, local history, and changing times.

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Title Speak to the Earth: Pages from a Farmwife's Journal
Author Rachel Peden; Foreword by Scott Russell Sanders
Binding Paperback
Pages 264
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Quarry Books
Publication date 2011-11
Illustrated Yes
Features Illustrated, Table of Contents
ISBN 9780253223425 / 0253223423
Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
Dimensions 7.9 x 6 x 0.7 in (20.07 x 15.24 x 1.78 cm)
Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Ecology
Category Biography / Autobiography
Library of Congress subjects Nature, Indiana - Social life and customs
Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

Rachel Peden (1901-1975) was a newspaper columnist who lived in Indiana. Her books Rural Free: A Farmwife's Almanac of Country Living and The Land, the People were reprinted by Indiana University Press in 2009 and 2010.

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