The last resort
Subtitle: journal of a Salt River Camp, 1942-1943
By: John C. Goodlett ; introduction by David Hoefer ; David Hoefer and Sallie Goodlett Showalter, editors
Publisher: Murky Press
Published: 2017
Place of publication: United States of America
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9780999254004
Subjects: Plants; Birds; Botany; Bird watching; World War, 1939-1945; American Personal narratives; Authors; World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924 (uri) http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01180924
Other titles: Journal of a Salt River Camp, 1942-1943
Description: In 1942, a 19-year-old University of Kentucky biology student began keeping a logbook at the camp he and a buddy had built along Salt River in central Kentucky. Part field journal, part diary, it chronicles the outdoor adventures of a group of young men in rural America just before they are called to serve during World War II. Their story is a reminder of a time when our lives were more rooted in the natural world, before a global war and the industries and public institutions it spawned accelerated our dislocation from our homes and our land. After serving as a lieutenant in Patton's army, the author, John C. Goodlett, continued his studies as a biologist at Harvard Forest and eventually accepted a position as a plant geographer at Johns Hopkins University. His life was cut short at age 44, but his academic contributions and these earliest journal notations reveal a man committed to the study of the natural world and the joys it offers its human inhabitants.--Amazon.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: At home in the passage of time; title: Cast of characters; title: Photos; title: Journal; title: Appendix A: Military correspondence; title: Appendix B: Harvard Forest; title: Afterword: Afterword; title: Acknowledgements; title: Reference: Biography; title: Taxonomic list; title: Botanical illustrations; title: Notes; title: Bibliography.