Louis Bromfield / E. B. White
Malabar Farm
- Echo Point Books & Media, LLC
- 2022
- Taschenbuch
- 436 Seiten
- ISBN 9781648372049
"A rare book of abundant variety . . . breathes the satisfaction of a busy rewarding life. This is a book for thoughtful people who love America. It will be read with gratitude far and wide. It is beautifully written." -Chicago Tribune When Pulitzer Prize-winning author Louis Bromfield and his young family returned to America from France on the eve of World War II, they settled down in rural Ohio's Pleasant Valley. He bought several adjacent properties and named the resulting aggregation Malabar Farm. The topsoil at Malabar Farm had been exhausted and eroded over the years, leaving the land largely unproductive, but Bromfield was determined to return it to sustainable productivity. Potent seeds were planted there. Those seeds soon took root and the plants began to thrive as he charted a bold new course for their lives and the land, in the process became an outspoken advocate for sustainability. Readers of Bromfield's previous book Pleasant Valley will enjoy the continuation of the true story he told there, this time focusing more on Malabar's transition from general-purpose farm to single-crop grass farming for cattle in the years 1944-1947. Originally published in 1948, Malabar Farm quickly became a popular success, attracting the attention of fellow farmers and the general public alike. In passionate, lyrical prose, Bromfield conveys both the practical, day-to-day details of farming and of the need to
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