Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2015, ©1999.
Format: Book
Edition: First paperback anniversary edition, [15th anniversary edition].
Description: 281 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
A memoir of a childhood, spend in an isolated Georgia community of Crackers, that grew into a passion to save the vanishing longleaf pine ecocystem in which she was raised.
Contents:
Child of Pine -- Below the Fall Line -- Shame -- Built by Fire -- Iron Man -- Forest Beloved -- Junkyard -- Crackers -- Native Genius -- Timber -- Heaven on Earth -- Clearcut -- How the Heart Opens -- Longleaf Clan -- Clyo -- Hallowed Ground -- Poverty -- The Keystone -- Beulahland -- Indigo Snake -- Mama -- Bachman's Sparrow -- Light -- Flatwoods Salamander -- Altamaha River -- Pine Savanna -- Driving and Singing -- The Kindest Cut -- Leaving -- Second Coming -- Afterword: Promised Land -- There Is a Miracle for You If You Keep Holding On.
Subjects:
Ray, Janisse, 1962- -- Childhood and youth.
Longleaf pine -- Georgia.
Deforestation -- Georgia.
Forest ecology -- Georgia.
Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects.
Baxley (Ga.) -- Biography.
Ray, Janisse, 1962- -- Childhood and youth.
Longleaf pine -- Georgia.
Deforestation -- Georgia.
Forest ecology -- Georgia.
Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects.
Baxley (Ga.) -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781571313256
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
BIOGRAPHY Ray, Janisse | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Biography | In |