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Forty Acres and a Fool: How to Live in the Country and Still Keep Your Sanity
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Forty Acres and a Fool: How to Live in the Country and Still Keep Your Sanity Hardback - 2006

by Roger Welsch

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At a time when so much manliness is played out on computer keyboards and TV or videogame remote controls, it takes a certain degree of grit and guts and plain pigheadedness to pull up stakes and move to the country. For those brave souls, the backward-looking gentleman farmers of our fast-forward-looking age, Roger Welsch has a few choice words. To homestead in the Old West, the saying went, all you needed was forty acres and a mule. For the 21st century, Welsch contends that instead of a beast of burden one only needs the stubbornness of being a fool.In several hilarious essays, Welsch presents a guy's guide to leaving modern miracles behind and embracing productive Ludditism. Made famous by his laconic pieces on CBS Sunday Morning (while wearing his signature overalls), Welsch takes on new subjects, and even elaborates the principles of feng shui for the farmhouse, barn, and farmyard. He draws on a lifetime's worth of experience to counsel prospective migrants to rural America on what precisely not to do. Learn from the mistakes of a master, and laugh harder than you thought possible while doing it. Roger Welsch is in fine fettle in Forty Acres and a Fool, a light-hearted look at rural upstarts that puts the delights of country living-and the occasional advantages of urban life-into rare perspective.

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  • Title Forty Acres and a Fool: How to Live in the Country and Still Keep Your Sanity
  • Author Roger Welsch
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Voyageur Press (MN), St. Paul, MN
  • Publication date October 1, 2006
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780760322567 / 0760322562
  • Weight 1.27 lbs (0.58 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.26 x 6.34 x 1.09 in (23.52 x 16.10 x 2.77 cm)
  • Category Humor
  • Library of Congress subjects Authors, American - 20th century, Country life
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2006018891
  • Dewey Decimal Code 630.978

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Roger Welsch can best be described as a cross between Erma Bombeck and Dr. Ruth, except male and living in Nebraska with his wife and dogs. Before turning his talents to canine psychology, Roger was best known as the fat guy in overalls on CBS Sunday Morning, where he offered up essays on rural and small-town life on the Plains.

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