Details
Out of This World
A Journey of HealingBur Oak Book
29,92 € |
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Verlag: | University Of Iowa Press |
Format: | |
Veröffentl.: | 15.04.2008 |
ISBN/EAN: | 9781609380205 |
Sprache: | englisch |
Anzahl Seiten: | 288 |
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Beschreibungen
When a life-threatening allergic illness demanded that she eat only organically grown food, writer and professor Mary Swander built a new life in a former one-room Iowa schoolhouse in the middle of the largest Amish community west of the Mississippi. In this rich and engaging memoir, which follows the course of a farmer's year, she writes from the well-named Fairview School to share the radical transformation of her life.From her perch in rural Kalona, Iowa, Swander discovers new strength and self-reliance along with a community of hardworking and hospitable neighbors. Raising goats and poultry, participating in barn raisings and auctions, protecting her garden from a plague of grasshoppers, creating a living crche at Christmastime, all the while laughing at her attempts to wrestle with the pioneer challenges of midwestern winters and summers, she explores what it means to be a lone physical and spiritual homesteader at the end of the twentieth century.