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Judith Moffett wanted to be a full-time subsistence farmer: a
homesteader. She settled instead for just one year of living close
to the land, temporarily forsaking her academic and writing careers
to devote herself, with her husband's help, to a one-acre plot in a
suburb outside Philadelphia. And from the year's hard work of
potato planting, duck and fish farming, honey extraction, blueberry
picking, and spaghetti sauce production, grew an awareness that
more was involved here than putting food on the table; her project
was a living lesson in the complex ways in which everything in
nature is interconnected.
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Pennterra (Paperback)
Judith Moffett
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R603
Discovery Miles 6 030
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Pennterra is a beautiful and fertile planet and humanitys last hope
for survival. But Pennterra is already inhabited. After warning
other colony ships to stay away, the small advance colony of
Quakers has adapted to life on Pennterra. Heeding the empathic
warnings of the native hrossa, they have settled in a single
valley, sharply limited their population, and continued to use no
heavy machinery in their building and farming. But surviving under
these conditions has left the Quakers little time to learn more
about their native neighbors. Catastrophe or peaceTanka Wakan, the
omnipotent master spirit of Pennterra, will decide. "Stunning . . .
the best first novel I have read in at least a decade . . .
dangerous and breathtaking to behold . . . " Michael Bishop
Analyzes the themes and techniques used in Merrill's most important
poems, and suggests the influences which shaped his work.
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