About the book
Farming in rural Kentucky with mules and horses shaped the essays gathered in this selection of Wendell Berry's writing. His publisher calls him something of an anachronism: he still works with a team of horses and a pencil, and his life began as the old times and the last people who lived them were dying out. The essays push back against what the publisher terms a false call to progress and defend local landscapes as the ground of cultural heritage, history and home. They draw on the close knowledge of land that his farm work gave him, and their subjects include farm life, sustainable agriculture, industrial capacity and the moral side of agriculture.
Cal Newport, who came to Wendell Berry after years of others urging him to, called this gathering of Berry's best essays a fantastic introduction to his polemical style.
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Cal Newport (Author)
After years of people recommending him to me, I finally took the plunge into the literary world of Wendell Berry. Now I can’t help but wonder what took me so long. This 2018 collection of Berry’s best essays is a fantastic introduction into his genre-defining polemic style, which mixes razor-sharp commentary with a poetry grounded in lived experience
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