Recollected essays, 1965-1980 / by Wendell Berry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berry, Wendell, 1934-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Berry, Wendell, 1934-.

Berry, Wendell.

Wilderness areas--United States.

Wilderness areas.

United States.

Authors, American--20th century--Biography.

Authors, American.

United States--Civilization--1945-.

Civilization.

Kentucky--Description and travel--1951- .

Kentucky.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

x, 340 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : North Point Press, 1981.

Summary:

These eleven essays, selected by the author from five previous collections, provides us with a single volume tracing Mr. Berry's desire to 'make myself responsibly at home in this world and in my native and chosen place.'

Contents:

From The long-legged house: The rise. The long-legged house. A native hill.

From The hidden wound: Nick and Aunt Georgie.

From A continuous harmony: Discipline and hope.

From The unforeseen wilderness: A country of edges. An entrance to the woods. The unforeseen wilderness. The journey's end.

From The unsettling of America: The body and the earth.

The making of a marginal farm.

ISBN:

0865470251 :

OCLC:

7197362