In Good Hands, Paperback by Fish, Charles, Brand New, Free shipping in the US

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Genre: Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History Item Height: 0.5 in Item Length: 9 in Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux width: 6 in ISBN: 9780374529826 Format: Trade Paperback Book Title: In Good Hands : the Keeping of a Family Farm Publication Year: 2004 Topic: United States / State & Local / New England (Ct, mA, Me, NH, Ri, VT), Historical, Sociology / Rural Author: Charles Fish height: 0.5 in Item Weight: 12.7 Oz Language: English Item Width: 6 in

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In Good Hands, Paperback by Fish, Charles, Brand New, Free shipping in the US. In Good Hands, Paperback by Fish, Charles, ISBN 0374529825, ISBN-13 9780374529826, Brand New, Free shipping in the US In 1836, Henry Lester moved his family from the Vermont hills to better land on the valley floor north of Rutland, beginning a saga six generations on a farm, which this book portrays and explores with an affectionate but critical eye. What gives th its distinctive charm is its vivid evocation of a way of life: the beloved grandmother keeping house both as a shelter and as a temple of the spirit; the uncles sowing and harvesting, raising and slaughtering; the author, as a small boy, working with the men, fishing and hunting, and later, reflecting on the issues of pleasure and work, freedom and community. In Good Hands, Paperback by Fish, Charles, ISBN 0374529825, ISBN-13 9780374529826, Brand New, Free shipping in the US In 1836, Henry Lester moved his family from the Vermont hills to better land on the valley floor north of Rutland, beginning a saga six generations on a farm, which this book portrays and explores with an affectionate but critical eye. What gives th its distinctive charm is its vivid evocation of a way of life: the beloved grandmother keeping house both as a shelter and as a temple of the spirit; the uncles sowing and harvesting, raising and slaughtering; the author, as a small boy, working with the men, fishing and hunting, and later, reflecting on the issues of pleasure and work, freedom and community.