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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Observations of an Accidental Farmer--And a Mindful Reader

Observations of an Accidental Farmer--And a Mindful Reader

Kavros, Harry

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ISBN10: 1589881915
ISBN13: 9781589881914
Publisher: Paul Dry Books
Published: Jul 16 2024
Pages: 235
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.57 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
In forty short and charming chapters, a former great books teacher from New York City adapts to his new role on a small Southern farm by observing the natural world and drawing connections to his reading life.

Erudite and engaging.--Booklist

In late middle-age, Harry Kavros and his wife, Peri, pack up all the household belongings that will fit into their car and leave Manhattan, bound for their new home on a twenty-two-acre patch of pine-filled land in Hillsborough, North Carolina. As Mr. Kavros spends long hours clearing the acreage, not for farming but for sightlines, he muses about the land, the exhausting work it requires, and the rewards the effort offers. Every task he undertakes prompts him to recall and meditate over scenes from his reading life. From the great Greek epics to the writings of Frederick Law Olmstead on landscape, to Thoreau, to modern poets, to a veritable treasury of references, for the author life in the country is also life in among his reading.

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