A lyrical, sensuous and thoroughly engrossing memoir of one critical year in the life of an organic peach farmer, Epitaph for a Peach is "a delightful narrative . . . with poetic flair and a sense of humor" (Library Journal). Line drawings.

A new Masumoto title that is a companion collection published as a documentary that is released this summer on local PBS programming. The story of turning over the family farm to hia daughter

"The physical earth is clearly under unprecedented siege--heated, toxified, scraped. But almost as if they were antibodies, the finest nature writers of any era have come forward to help in the fight. This anthology collects many of the most important, at their most eloquent. May it ring and echo and do some good!"--Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature "This is a stunning collection of vivid writing about landscapes and the people who inhabit them. The diverse narratives gathered here do more than describe hawks diving and twigs snapping, although the book has its share of moving accounts of the natural world. A concern to live responsibily in nature runs through this evocative anthology like a subterranean stream, and that moral impulse, together with the lively prose, makes this the best collection of nature writing I've seen."--Thomas A. Tweed, editor of Retelling U.S. Religious History

This book explores the significance of the peach as a cultural icon and viable commodity in the American South.

A step-by-step guide to genealogical research for students of Japanese American descent or those interested in Japanese Americans.

The author of Harvest Son and Epitaph for a Peach discusses the joys of savoring the process of quality farming, recounting in lavish detail the sensory experience of raising a harvest. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

At the time of his death in 1921, John Burroughs (1837-1921) was America’s most beloved nature writer, a best-selling author whose friends and admirers included Walt Whitman, Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir, Henry Ford, and Thomas Edison. Burroughs was second only to Emerson in fostering the nature study movement of the nineteenth- century, and the popularity of his work inspired Houghton Mifflin to publish or reissue the work of numerous other nature writers, including that of Thoreau and Muir. His first collection of essays, Wake-Robin, was published in 1871, and over the next fifty years Burroughs wrote almost two dozen books, and hundreds of essays—not only on nature, but on literature, travel, philosophy, religion, and science. By the turn of the century, Burroughs was America’s most beloved nature writer, whose friends and admirers included Walt Whitman, Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir, Henry Ford, and Thomas Edison. Burroughs died in 1921 while on a train ride back to his New York from California. His final words—"Are we home yet?"—were a remarkably fitting coda to the career of a writer so closely identified with his native Catskill region of New York State. In many of his essays, Burroughs explores the woods and fields of home, and in doing so, like Henry Thoreau and his explorations of Concord, Massachusetts, he transcends the local and examines the universal theme of our relation with nature and our native landscape. Burroughs’s emphasis on "place" and the local now seems modern once again; as the current interest in bioregionalism and climate change demonstrates, it has become increasingly evident that "thinking locally" is "thinking globally." Since 1992, the SUNY College at Oneonta has hosted the biannual John Burroughs Nature Conference and Seminar ('Sharp Eyes'), which honors the influence of Burroughs on American nature writing. Distinguished keynote speakers who have addressed the conference include John Elder, John Tallmadge, Joy Harjo, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Edward Kanze, James Perrin Warren, and Edward J. Renehan, Jr. The scope of the conference is not limited solely to Burroughs, however, as each year the writers and scholars in attendance direct their attention toward a particular issue of significance to contemporary nature writers and scholars of environmental literature. The theme of this collection, "Writing the Land: John Burroughs and his Legacy" was featured in the 2006 conference, and includes essays on John Burroughs as well as essays on the work of other writers who, like Burroughs, are linked closely through their work to a particular landscape or region. The third and final section of this book features invited essays by three distinguished scholars, John Tallmadge, Robert Beuka, and Charlotte Zoë Walker, who consider the topic of what writing about the land and nature means from three different perspectives—urban, suburban, and rural.

Carroll Pursell tells the story of the evolution of American technology since World War II. His fascinating and surprising history links pop culture icons with landmarks in technological innovation and shows how postwar politics left their mark on everything from television, automobiles, and genetically engineered crops to contraceptives, Tupperware, and the Veg-O-Matic. Just as America's domestic and international policies became inextricably linked during the Cold War, so did the nation's public and private technologies. The spread of the suburbs fed into demands for an interstate highway system, which itself became implicated in urban renewal projects. Fear of slipping into a postwar economic depression was offset by the creation of "a consumers' republic" in which buying and using consumer goods became the ultimate act of citizenship and a symbol of an "American Way of Life." Pursell begins with the events of World War II and the increasing belief that technological progress and the science that supported it held the key to a stronger, richer, and happier America. He looks at the effect of returning American servicemen and servicewomen and the Marshall Plan, which sought to integrate Western Europe into America's economic, business, and technological structure. He considers the accumulating "problems" associated with American technological supremacy, which, by the end of the 1960s, led to a crisis of confidence. Pursell concludes with an analysis of how consumer technologies create a cultural understanding that makes political technologies acceptable and even seem inevitable, while those same political technologies provide both form and content for the technologies found at home and at work. By understanding this history, Pursell hopes to advance a better understanding of the postwar American self.

The thematically arranged short essays in this reader are selected to engage developmental writing students, activate their thinking, and lead to meaningful writing assignments. With high visual appeal and manageable, high-interest essays, "The Writer's Selections focuses on influences that shape our lives, both positively and negatively, in sections called "Decisions, Events, Work, Cultures, Others Around Us, Media, and "Technology. Extensive apparatus accompanying each reading promotes comprehension.

Describes the main points and influence of such environmental writings as "Origin of Species," "Descent of Man," and "Silent Spring" which discuss animal ecology, biodiversity, forest management, and nature.

Über das Leben, das Gärtnern und die Freundschaft In diesem faszinierenden Briefwechsel tauschen sich die beiden legendären englischen Gärtner Beth Chatto und Christopher Lloyd, langjährige Freunde und enthusiastische Pflanzenliebhaber, über ihre so unterschiedlichen Gärten, aber auch über ihre Erfahrungen, Erfolge und Enttäuschungen aus; sie berichten von Erlebnissen, gemeinsamen Freunden, kulinarischen Genüssen und den Freuden und Leiden des Alltags. Sehr persönlich und liebenswert diskutieren sie ihre Ansichten und Einsichten über das Leben, die Musik, die Jahreszeiten und die Natur. Ihre Lebenswege und Ausgangsbedingungen sind sehr unterschiedlich: auf der einen Seite Beth Chatto, die als Autodidaktin ihre heute berühmten Beth Chatto Gardens in East Anglia über mehr als 40 Jahre dem kargen Boden abgetrotzt hat und damit zeigt, was unter schwierigsten Bedingungen möglich ist; auf der anderen Seite Christopher Llyod, der das historische Anwesen Great Dixter in Sussex mit seinen zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts von Sir Edwin Lutyens angelegten Gärten von seinen Eltern übernommen und sehr kreativ weiterentwickelt hat. Beide haben mehrere Bücher über ihre Gärten veröffentlicht und wurden weltweit mit zahlreichen Preisen und Anerkennungen ausgezeichnet. • Faszinierender Briefwechsel zweier legendärer Gärtner • Persönlich und berührend • Wunderbare Lektüre für alle Gartenfreunde

„Es gibt nur wenige, denen es wie John Robbins gelingt, Menschen zu einer Ernährungsweise zu inspirieren, die gesund und von einem tiefen Respekt für die Erde geprägt ist.“ Paul Hawken In Letzter Ausweg vegan setzt sich John Robbins mit überzeugenden Argumenten und kraftvoller Stimme für eine menschen- und tierwürdige sowie nachhaltige Zukunft auf unserem Planeten ein. Er hat die Entwicklungen in der „Nahrungsmittelpolitik“ und in allen Bereichen, die mit unserer Ernährung in Zusammenhang stehen, seit vielen Jahren nicht aus den Augen gelassen, war als „verdeckter Ermittler“ unterwegs und hat seine Beobachtungen und Erkenntnisse in Kolumnen in der Huffington Post veröffentlicht. Die Sammlung der jüngsten provozierenden Enthüllungen erscheint nun zusammen mit bislang unveröffentlichten Texten in Buchform. Robbins’ scharfe Beobachtungen und zwingende Schlussfolgerungen fordern uns alle zur Selbstverantwortung auf, denn: Nur ein achtsamer Umgang mit unseren Mitwesen und daraus folgend eine bewusste Ernährung können unser aller Leben und die Erde wieder in Harmonie bringen. John Robbins – weltweit anerkannter Kritiker der heutigen Nahrungsmittelindustrie – veröffentlicht hier seine neuesten Enthüllungen über das schmutzige Geschäft mit unserem Essen und ruft zu mehr Mitgefühl, Verantwortungsbewusstsein und gesundem Menschenverstand in dieser „unmenschlichen Zeit“ auf – überzeugend und schonungslos! In Letzter Ausweg vegan beschäftigt er sich unter anderem mit Themen wie ● dem Drama der Massentierhaltung und der Schlachthäuser, ● der Sklaverei hinter dem Kaffee und dem Kakaohandel, ● dem Schwindel mit dem synthetischen "Vitaminwasser", ● den Marketingtricks der Junk-Food-Konzerne, denen speziell Kinder und Jugendliche zum Opfer fallen, ● dem Zusammenhang zwischen Sojaprodukten und Alzheimer, ● erschreckenden Erkenntnissen über die Auswirkungen der hormonverseuchten tierischen Nahrung …