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A beautiful bookabout nature the way Walden was a book about nature It should be read by everyone who still retains the capacity to feel anything The New York Times
Stunningly written and fiercely observed a new edition of a classic work of nature writing about a year on an Ohio farm by Pulitzer Prizewinning author Josephine Johnson
Originally published in 1969 The Inland Island is Josephine W Johnsons startling and brilliant chronicle of nature and the seasons at her rambling thirtysevenacre farm in Ohio which she and her husband reverted to wilderness with the help of a state forester Over the course of twelve months she observes the changing landscape with a naturalists precision and a poets evocative language Readers will marvel at the way she brings to life flashes of beauty the inexorable cycle of growth and decay and the creatures who live alongside her great and small
A forerunner of iconic American women nature writers and a champion of civil rights who marched in Washington against the Vietnam war Johnson intersperses these delicate marvels The New York Times with profound reflections about racial inequality urbanization social justice and environmental destruction that speak powerfully to our time
Ready to be rediscovered by a new generation The Inland Island is a vital and relevant meditation on nature and time capturing the wonder beauty hopeand flawsof our turbulent world
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