Ecology of a Cracker childhood
Title:
Ecology of a Cracker childhood
Author:
Ray, Janisse, 1962-
ISBN:
9781571312471
9781571312341
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Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
Minneapolis : Milkweed Editions ; [Emeryville, CA] : Distributed by Publishers Group West, 1999.
Physical Description:
285 p. [pap] : ill. ; 23 cm.
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.
Abstract:
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.
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