[Mobile ebook] Reading the Mountains of Home






 | #623362 in Books |  Harvard University Press |  1999-10-01 |  1999-08-20 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.50 x.67 x5.50l,.69 | File Name: 0674748891 | 272 pages

 | Paperback with pictures of woods and leaves


||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| A Surprisingly Satisfying Read|By Pauline Epistle|A fascinating account by a scholarly professor which records his observations (including accounts and memories of his family life) as he hikes around his home area in Vermont during one year’s time. His annotated reading of Robert Frost’s poem “The Mountains of Home” shows how Frost refers poetically to|.com |Late in life, the American novelist and conservationist Wallace Stegner left California, where he had lived for half a century, to move to Vermont. The reason, he said, was simple: there is more wilderness to be found in the pine forests of western New

Small farms once occupied the heights that John Elder calls home, but now only a few cellar holes and tumbled stone walls remain among the dense stands of maple, beech, and hemlocks on these Vermont hills. Reading the Mountains of Homeis a journey into these verdant reaches where in the last century humans tried their hand and where bear and moose now find shelter. As John Elder is our guide, so Robert Frost is Elder's companion, his great poem "Directive" see...


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