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Ecology of a Cracker childhood / Janisse Ray.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ray, Janisse, 1962-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ray, Janisse, 1962---Childhood and youth.
- Ray, Janisse.
- Ray, Janisse, 1962-.
- Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects.
- Consumption (Economics).
- Forest ecology.
- Deforestation.
- Baxley (Ga.)--Biography.
- Baxley (Ga.).
- Longleaf pine.
- Deforestation--Georgia.
- Forest ecology--Georgia.
- Georgia.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 285 pages : illustrations, genealogical table ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis, MN : Milkweed Editions : Distributed by Publishers Group West, 1999.
- Summary:
- Janisse Ray grew up in a junkyard along U.S. Highway 1, hidden from Florida-bound travelers by the hedge at the edge of the road and by hulks of old cars, stacks of blown-out tires, and primeval jumbles of rusted metal. Ecology of a Cracker Childhood tells how a childhood spent in rural isolation--living in the country but not even knowing how to swim--grew into a passion to save the almost vanished longleaf pine ecosystem that existed before the region was ever called the South.
- In language at once colloquial, elegiac, and informative, Ray redeems two Souths. She shows the world perceived from a junkyard by a child reared in a fundamentalist religion with relatives as colorful as any character from fiction. She also catalogs the Edenic beauty of longleaf pine forests, where orchids grow amid wiregrass at the feet of widely spaced, lofty trees. Today, both worlds exist in fragments, cherished and threatened.
- Contents:
- Child of Pine 5
- Below the Fall Line 13
- Shame 17
- Built by Fire 35
- Iron Man 39
- Forest Beloved 65
- Junkyard 71
- Crackers 81
- Native Genius 89
- Timber 99
- Heaven on Earth 105
- Clearcut 123
- How the Heart Opens 127
- Longleaf Clan 141
- Clyo 143
- Hallowed Ground 151
- Poverty 157
- The Keystone 167
- Beulahland 175
- Indigo Snake 187
- Mama 193
- Bachman's Sparrow 205
- Light 211
- Flatwoods Salamander 217
- Altamaha River 223
- Pine Savanna 239
- Driving and Singing 245
- The Kindest Cut 251
- Leaving 255
- Second Coming 267
- Afterword: Promised Land 271
- There Is a Miracle for You If You Keep Holding On 273.
- ISBN:
- 157131234X
- OCLC:
- 40738898
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