The Land Was Everything
Subtitle: Letters from an American Farmer
Contributors: Jane Smiley (Foreword)
Edition: First Edition edition
Publisher: Free Press
Published: April 20, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780684845012
Subjects: Agriculture & Farming; American history; United States; History; Agriculture (General); History - General History; History - U.S.; Nature; History: American; USA; Agriculture - General; United States - General; History / General; Agriculture; Effect of human beings on; Environmental aspects
First sentence: Farmers are in a dilemma.
Description: "Today the tradition of muscular, self-effacing labor is quietly disappearing, as the last of America's independent farmers slowly fade away. When they have gone, what will we have lost? In The Land Was Everything, Victor Davis Hanson, an embattled fifth-generation California grape farmer and passionate, eloquent writer, answers this question by offering a final snapshot of the yeoman, his work, and his wisdom."--Jacket.