Apps Jerry Apps

Land Still Lives (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"e;Apps is a man of ideas who is sensitive to the touch, the smells, and the feel of doing things by hand, today and a hundred years ago."e;-from the foreword by Senator Gaylord NelsonOriginally published in 1970, The Land Still Lives is the first book by Wisconsin s greatest rural philosopher, Jerry Apps. Written when he was still a young agriculture professor at the University of Wisconsin, The Land Still Lives was readers first introduction to Jerry s farm in central Wisconsin, called Roshara, and the surrounding community of Skunk s Hollow. This special 50th-anniversary edition features a new epilogue, in which Jerry revisits his philosophy of caring for the land so it in turn will care for us. This is vintage Apps, essential reading for Jerry s legions of fans and for all who, like Jerry, wish to develop a relationship with nature and all its mystery and wonder.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wisconsin Historical Society Press
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. September 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780870209079
• Artikelnr.: 72351852

Autorenporträt

Award-winning Wisconsin author Jerry Apps has written more than 40 nonfiction and fiction books. Born and raised on a central Wisconsin farm, Jerry is a former county extension agent and professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin College of Agriculture and Life Sciences in Madison, where he taught for thirty years. In 2012, he was elected a Fellow in the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters. Today he works as a rural historian, creative writing instructor, and full-time writer. He has created five documentaries with Wisconsin Public Television, has won several awards for his writing, and won a regional Emmy Award for the TV documentary A Farm Winter.