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Book Description: Ohio University Press, 2001. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. {NEW} Hardback with Dust Jacket. Bookseller Inventory # 249023

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Book Description: Ohio University Press, United States, 2001. Hardback. Book Condition: New. Ohio Univ PR. 184 x 152 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery. Gene Logsdon's The Man Who Created Paradise is a message of hope at a time when the sustainability of the earth appears to many to be hopeless. The fable, inspired by a true story, tells how young Wally Spero looked at one of the bleakest places in America--the strip-mined spoil banks of southeastern Ohio--and saw in it his escape from the drudgery of his factory job. He bought an old bulldozer and used the machine to carve patiently, acre by acre, a beautiful little farm out of a seemingly worthless wasteland. This charming story is the purest distillation yet of what Gene Logsdon has been writing as a journalist and author through the course of some twenty books of nonfiction and hundreds of magazine articles. Environmental restoration is the task of our time. The work of healing our land begins in our own backyards and farms, in our neighborhoods and our regions. Humans can turn the earth into a veritable paradise--if they really want to. Noted photographer Gregory Spaid retraced the trail that Logsdon traveled when he was inspired to write The Man Who Created Paradise. His photographs evoke the same soulful yearning for wholeness, for ties to land and community, that infuses the fable's hopeful, poetic prose. Seldom have words and images complemented each other so well. Bookseller Inventory # AAN9780821414071

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Book Description: Ohio University Press. Hardback. Book Condition: new. BRAND NEW, The Man Who Created Paradise: A Fable, Gene Logsdon, Gregory Spaid, Wendell Berry, Gene Logsdon's The Man Who Created Paradise is a message of hope at a time when the sustainability of the earth appears to many to be hopeless. The fable, inspired by a true story, tells how young Wally Spero looked at one of the bleakest places in America - the strip-mined spoil banks of southeastern Ohio - and saw in them his escape from the drudgery of his factory job. He bought an old bulldozer and used the machine to carve patiently, acre by acre, a beautiful little farm out of a seemingly worthless wasteland. This charming story is the purest distillation yet of what Gene Logsdon has been writing as a journalist and author through the course of some twenty books of nonfiction and hundreds of magazine articles. Environmental restoration is the task of our time. The work of healing our land begins in our own backyards and farms, in our neighborhoods and our regions. Humans can turn the earth into a veritable paradise - if they really want to. Noted photographer Gregory Spaid retraced the trail that Logsdon traveled when he was inspired to write The Man Who Created Paradise. His photographs evoke the same soulful yearning for wholeness, for ties to land and community, that infuses the fable's hopeful, poetic prose. Seldom have words and images complimented each other so well. Bookseller Inventory # B9780821414071

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Book Description: Ohio University Press. Book Condition: New. Gene Logsdon?s The Man Who Created Paradise is a message of hope at a time when the sustainability of the earth appears to many to be hopeless. The fable, inspired by a true story, tells how young Wally Spero looked at one of the bleakest places in America?the strip-mined spoil banks of southeastern Ohio?and saw in it his escape from the drudgery of his factory job. He bought an old bulldozer and used the machine to carve patiently, acre by acre, a beautiful little farm out of a seemingly worthless wasteland. This charming story is the purest distillation yet of what Gene Logsdon has been writing as a journalist and author through the course of some twenty books of nonfiction and hundreds of magazine articles. Environmental restoration is the task of our time. The work of healing our land begins in our own backyards and farms, in our neighborhoods and our regions. Humans can turn the earth into a veritable paradise?if they really want to. Noted photographer Gregory Spaid retraced the trail that Logsdon traveled when he was inspired to write The Man Who Created Paradise. His photographs evoke the same soulful yearning for wholeness, for ties to land and community, that infuses the fable?s hopeful, poetic prose. Seldom have words and images complemented each other so well.This charming fable about a man reclaiming strip-mined land with an old bulldozer and creating lovely small farms is the purest distillation yet of what Gene Logsdon has been writing as a journalist and author through the course of some twenty books of nonfiction and hundreds of magazine articles. Environmental restoration is the task of our time. The work of healing our land begins in our own backyards and farms, in our neighborhoods and our regions.?This book is a work of social, ecological, and moral imagination?a reminder that we do not live in the only or the best possible world.??Jedediah Purdy?This, then, is a book of two visions: one of disease, one of health. Or to put it another way, Gene Logsdon has had the generosity and the courage to allow a vision of Hell to call forth in himself its natural opposite.? ?Wendell Berry?If you're feeling despairing, this book is the tonic. The American equivalent of Jean Giono's The Man Who Planted Trees, this slim volume should be read aloud at kitchen tables and over the radio until it becomes a national legend?a legend we might then try to live up to.??Bill McKibbenGene Logsdon, an independent writer and farmer in Upper Sandusky, Ohio, is the author of more than twenty books on farming and rural life. In 2000 Logsdon was awarded the prestigious Ohionana Library Association Career Award for his achievements as an author. Gregory Spaid is a nationally recognized documentary photographer. In 2000 he published his first book of photographs, Grace: Photographs of Rural America. Spaid teaches photography at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. Brand NEW unread book. Hard cover bound book. Bookseller Inventory # 9780821414071

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Book Description: Ohio Univ Pr, 2001. Hardcover. Book Condition: Brand New. 1st ohio u edition. 72 pages. 7.50x6.00x0.50 inches. In Stock. Bookseller Inventory # __0821414070

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