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"If you pay attention to the land where you live, you enter into
conversation with it, until it becomes a voice inside you, and some
of the boundaries between you and it dissolve," writes Susan Hand
Shetterly in her introduction to these heartfelt essays about
learning to appreciate the view from wherever you're standing. In
an age of restlessness, Shetterly explores what it means to stay in
one place by writing about the things she finds in the natural
world around her home on the ragged edge of the continent.
Updated a decade after its original publication, this memoir by
Jean Hay Bright chronicles the years in the 1970s when the author
and her first husband, a traumatized Vietnam veteran, homesteaded
on 25 rugged Maine acres sold to them by Living the Good Life
authors Helen and Scott Nearing, and the aftermath of that
experience in the decades that followed. Jean also used her
investigative reporting skills to try to resolve some long-standing
and nagging questions about the Nearings, focusing particularly on
their finances over the decades. Her research also turned up some
surprising and enlightening facts about how Helen and Scott Nearing
actually lived and died. The revised edition has a new Prologue by
Susan Hand Shetterly, more family photos, an expanded Afterword, as
well as details and a new chapter pulled from Scott Nearing's FBI
file, including documentation of Scott's listing in J. Edgar
Hoover's Custodial Detention program.
An ancient, and vital, part of nature's ecosystem, seaweed is now
emerging as an increasingly important source of food in a world
faced with diminishing natural resources. In Seaweed Chronicles,
acclaimed nature writer Susan Hand Shetterly opens a window into
the world of this fascinating organism by providing an elegant,
often poetic look at life on the rugged shore of the Gulf of Maine.
Shetterly offers a close look at the life cycle of seaweed, and
introduces us to the men and women who farm and harvest it - and
their increasingly difficult task of protecting this critical
natural resource against forces both natural and man-made. Ideal
for readers of such books as The Hidden Life of Trees and How to
Read Water, Seaweed Chronicles is a beautiful tribute to a
little-known part of our country and a significant contribution to
our understanding of our natural habitat.
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