Measure of the Year - Softcover

Haig-Brown, Roderick L.

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9780888946966: Measure of the Year
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0888946961 ISBN 13: 9780888946966
Publisher: UNKNO, 1990

Synopsis

The most memorable of Haig-Brown's reflections on life and nature.

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Review

Roderick L. Haig-Brown (1908-1976), one of Canada's best-known nature writers, took up subsistence gardening on a patch of land on Vancouver Island in the days before widespread development and logging scarred the place. In Measure of the Year, first published in 1950, the British expatriate describes his then-eccentric escape to the woods, undertaken long before back-to-the-land ideas had much currency. He writes lovingly of bringing order to his tiny farm, setting out plant rows and nurturing seedlings, naming the streams and orchards he and his family worked each day, and getting to know his little corner of the universe. His wise book, with its asides on hermetic neighbors, his vast library, and the changing seasons, makes for delightful reading.

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Publisher
UNKNO
Publication date
1990
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0888946961
ISBN 13 
9780888946966
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
5
Rating
  • 4.22 out of 5 stars
    32 ratings by Goodreads

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