The Last Resort: Journal of a Salt River Camp 1942-43

Goodlett, John C

ISBN 10: 0999254014 / ISBN 13: 9780999254011

Verlag: Murky Press, 2017

signed by writer of introduction, hardcover with dust jacket, tight, pages clear and bright, shelf and edge wear, corners bumped, packaged in cardboard box for shipment, tracking on U.S. orders. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 100820

Inhaltsangabe:

In 1942, a 19-year-old University of Kentucky biology student began keeping a logbook at the camp he and a buddy had built along Salt River in central Kentucky. Part field journal, part diary, it chronicles the outdoor adventures of a group of young men in rural America just before they are called to serve during World War II. Their story is a reminder of a time when our lives were more rooted in the natural world, before a global war and the industries and public institutions it spawned accelerated our dislocation from our homes and our land.

After serving as a lieutenant in Patton's army, the author, John C. Goodlett, continued his studies as a biologist at Harvard Forest and eventually accepted a position as a plant geographer at Johns Hopkins University. His life was cut short at age 44, but his academic contributions and these earliest journal notations reveal a man committed to the study of the natural world and the joys it offers its human inhabitants.

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren: John C. Goodlett was a professor of plant geography at Johns Hopkins University.

David Hoefer is an adjunct instructor in the anthropology department at the University of Louisville.

Sallie Showalter is a writer and editor living in Georgetown, Kentucky.

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Titel: The Last Resort: Journal of a Salt River ...
Verlag: Murky Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
Einband: hardcover
Zustand: Very Good