num_pages: 224
description: Janisse Ray grew up in a junkyard along U.S. Highway 1, hidden from Florida-bound vacationers by the hedge at the edge of the road and by hulks of old cars and stacks of blown-out tires. Ecology of a Cracker Childhood tells how a childhood spent in rural isolation and steeped in religious fundamentalism grew into a passion to save the almost vanished longleaf pine ecosystem that once covered the South. In language at once colloquial, elegiac, and informative, Ray redeems two Souths.
language: English
title: Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
titlecomplete: Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
genres: Nature, History, Southern, Biography Memoir, Environment, Biography, Science, Memoir, Nonfiction, Ecology
ratings_count: 2859
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: American Book Award
publisher: Milkweed Editions