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View from the Fazenda - A Tale of the Brazilian Heartlands (Paperback)
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View from the Fazenda - A Tale of the Brazilian Heartlands (Paperback)
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"I imagine everyone has a center of gravity," says Ellen Bromfield
Geld. "Something which binds one to the earth and gives sense and
direction to what one does." For Ellen, this center is a writing
table before a window that looks out upon groves of pecan trees and
mahogany-colored cattle in seas of grass. The place is Fazenda Pau
D'Alho, Brazil, where she and her husband, Carson, have lived and
farmed since 1961. Healing the ravaged coffee plantation, rearing
five children, exploring the outposts, the Gelds have created a
dynamic yet peaceful life far from Ellen's native Ohio. Their
practice of sustainable agriculture, and Ellen's plea for the
preservation of Brazil's remaining wilderness areas, reflect the
legacy of her father, the novelist and farm visionary Louis
Bromfield. Their shared vision is crystallized in her account of a
cattle drive across the Pantanal, the vast flood plain on Brazil's
side of the Paraguay River. She describes a two-hundred year
symbiosis between ranchers and a fragile ecosystem that is being
threatened by development. View from the Fazenda is distilled from
fifty years of living in Brazil, weaving daily life on the farm
into her quest to understand a nation. It portrays a true melting
pot of people who-as conquerers, immigrants, or slaves, their blood
and history mingled with those of native Indians-have created the
character of Brazil. This huge, diverse county, living in several
eras at the same time, is ever changing through its people's
amazing ability to "find a way." Ellen Bromfield Geld evokes the
land and people of Brazil and offers readers an invigorating
glimpse into a soulful life. "It seems to me that being a bit of a
poet is perhaps the only way one can survive as a farmer," she
explains. "For in the end, more than anything, farming is a way of
life you either love or become bitter enduring."
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