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Author : Roger Welsch
Release : 2006
Genre : Authors, American
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 013/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Forty Acres and a Fool by : Roger Welsch
Download or read book Forty Acres and a Fool written by Roger Welsch. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roger Welsch
Release : 2006-10-01
Genre : Humor
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 567/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Forty Acres and a Fool by : Roger Welsch
Download or read book Forty Acres and a Fool written by Roger Welsch. This book was released on 2006-10-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when so much manliness is played out on computer keyboards and TV or videogame remote controls, it takes a certain degree of grit and guts and plain pigheadedness to pull up stakes and move to the country. For those brave souls, the backward-looking gentleman farmers of our fast-forward-looking age, Roger Welsch has a few choice words. To homestead in the Old West, the saying went, all you needed was forty acres and a mule. For the 21st century, Welsch contends that instead of a beast of burden one only needs the stubbornness of being a fool. In several hilarious essays, Welsch presents a guy's guide to leaving modern miracles behind and embracing productive Ludditism. Made famous by his laconic pieces on CBS Sunday Morning (while wearing his signature overalls), Welsch takes on new subjects, and even elaborates the principles of feng shui for the farmhouse, barn, and farmyard. He draws on a lifetime's worth of experience to counsel prospective migrants to rural America on what precisely not to do. Learn from the mistakes of a master, and laugh harder than you thought possible while doing it. Roger Welsch is in fine fettle in Forty Acres and a Fool, a light-hearted look at rural upstarts that puts the delights of country living-and the occasional advantages of urban life-into rare perspective.
Author : Gerard F. Murrin
Release : 2010
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 743/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Forty Acres by : Gerard F. Murrin
Download or read book Forty Acres written by Gerard F. Murrin. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This spellbinding tale, filled with engaging characters, heroes and villains alike, confronts the land-use crisis in America. With chilling affect, this story foreshadows the look and feel of the mid-21st-century given the continued loss of land to commercial and residential development. In Murrin's fictional America, the federal government enacts radical legislation in an attempt to control land-use practices, resulting in a political landscape that is unrecognizable. Local power brokers quickly learn to manipulate the new system, outlawing dissension groups while continuing to devour open space at an alarming rate. However, despite being driven underground, the tiny Land Preservation Society (LPS) remains determined to save as many acres as they can. As Tom Sanders struggles to keep the LPS together, he pins his last hope on holding the line at Meador Farms, rumored to be an ancient Native American burial ground, making it a possible deterrence to development. Tom is in for the race of his life, as he desperately tries to save his beloved property.
Author : Scott Garvey
Release :
Genre : Transportation
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 342/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Tractor in the Haystack by : Scott Garvey
Download or read book The Tractor in the Haystack written by Scott Garvey. This book was released on . Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the aficionado of farm equipment, or the scion of an old farming family nostalgic for the old days, or the grown-up boy who still loves a classic piece of old-time machinery, the vintage tractor can be a thrilling find like no other. This book tells dozens of stories of such discoveries, of the treasured old tractor parked in a shed since 1927, of the pristine model unearthed at an estate sale, of the broken-down old beauty stashed in a barn where generations of children have made their secret hideaways. These are the classic tractors that are often as hard to find as a needle in a haystack—but far more fun to discover, as all of these delightful stories make abundantly clear.
Author : Edward Abbey
Release : 1998-08-15
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 29X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Fool's Progress by : Edward Abbey
Download or read book The Fool's Progress written by Edward Abbey. This book was released on 1998-08-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fool's Progress, the "fat masterpiece" as Edward Abbey labeled it, is his most important piece of writing: it reveals the complete Ed Abbey, from the green grass of his memory as a child in Appalachia to his approaching death in Tuscon at age sixty two. When his third wife abandons him in Tucson, boozing, misanthropic anarchist Henry Holyoak Lightcap shoots his refrigerator and sets off in a battered pick-up truck for his ancestral home in West Virginia. Accompanied only by his dying dog and his memories, the irascible warhorse (a stand-in for the "real" Abbey) begins a bizarre cross-country odyssey--determined to make peace with his past--and to wage one last war against the ravages of "progress." "A profane, wildly funny, brash, overbearing, exquisite tour de force." -- The Chicago Tribune
