Kayaking with Lambs (eBook)

Notes from an East Tennessee Farmer

Brian D. Miller (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
168 Seiten
Wipf and Stock Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-6667-8169-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Brian Miller's Kayaking with Lambs is about the idyllic farm life of your imagination--fresh fruits and vegetables, livestock large and small, endless gatherings of kith and kin around a table of homegrown food and handmade drink. It is also about pain, blood, deaths, mud, storms, droughts, and failures.

The author, who owns a small East Tennessee farm, lives an "antiquated life," that is, a life often out of sync with modernity and closely in sync with the natural world. His book is structured as a breviary broken into the eight monastic offices of the day. Written as a series of meditative notes, it follows his efforts to live with purpose and stewardship.

Kayaking with Lambs is about learning to dwell alongside neighbors, nature, and even the planet as if it mattered. In language that is poetic and writing that is honest, insightful, poignant, wry, and self-deprecating, Miller ponders everything from the cycles of life to his family heritage to what Wes Jackson refers to as "becoming native to this place." And, of course, he shares the many times along his journey that he's found himself in situations totally unforeseen when he began . . . like kayaking with lambs.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.10.2023
• Verlagsort: Eugene
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Schlagworte: Agrarianism • Agriculture and Food Policy) • Agriculture and Food (see also POLITICAL SCIENCE • biography and autobiography • Brian D. Miller • Country Living • Cultural studies: food and society • essays and narratives • Farm Philosophy • Gardening • Kayaking with Lambs • localism • Memoirs • Personal Memoirs • Public Policy • Self-Sufficiency • Small-Farm Life • Social Science
• ISBN-10: 1-6667-8169-X / 166678169X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-6667-8169-4 / 9781666781694