About this title: Berry's assessment of modern agriculture and its relationship to American culture--our health, economy, personal relationships, morals, and spiritual values--is more timely than ever. This new edition of Berry's work presents a a classic testament to the value of the American family farm.
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Sierra Club Books
Date Published: 1996-03-01
ISBN-13:9780871568779ISBN:0871568772
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Sierra Club Books
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780871568779ISBN:0871568772
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Edition: Later printing
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Sierra Club Books, San Francisco
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780871568779ISBN:0871568772
Description: NEW. 234pp. Octavo. In The Unsettling of America Wendell Berry argues that good farming is a cultural development and spiritual discipline. Today's agribusiness, however, takes farming out of its cultural context and away from families, and as a nation we are thus more estranged from the land-from the intimate knowledge, love, and care of it. Sadly, as Berry notes in the afterword to this new edition, his arguments and observations are still relevant today. We continue to suffer loss of ... read more
Edition: First edition, Uncorrected Proof
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Sierra Club Books, San Francisco
Date Published: 1977
Description: 207pp. Octavo [21 cm] Light blue printed wrappers. Very good. Wrappers lightly sunned. This is the uncorrected proof that predated the trade first edition by a few months. In The Unsettling of America Wendell Berry argues that good farming is a cultural development and spiritual discipline. Today's agribusiness, however, takes farming out of its cultural context and away from families, and as a nation we are thus more estranged from the land-from the intimate knowledge, love, and care of it. ... read more
Edition: First edition, Uncorrected Proof
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Sierra Club Books, San Francisco
Date Published: 1977
Description: 207pp. Octavo [21 cm] Light blue printed wrappers. Near fine. Back strip lightly sunned. This is the uncorrected proof that predated the trade first edition by a few months. In The Unsettling of America Wendell Berry argues that good farming is a cultural development and spiritual discipline. Today's agribusiness, however, takes farming out of its cultural context and away from families, and as a nation we are thus more estranged from the land-from the intimate knowledge, love, and care of it. ... read more
Edition: First edition, Uncorrected Proof
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Sierra Club Books, San Francisco
Date Published: 1977
Description: 207pp. Octavo [21 cm] Light blue printed wrappers. Near fine. Back strip lightly sunned. This is the uncorrected proof that predated the trade first edition by a few months. In The Unsettling of America Wendell Berry argues that good farming is a cultural development and spiritual discipline. Today's agribusiness, however, takes farming out of its cultural context and away from families, and as a nation we are thus more estranged from the land-from the intimate knowledge, love, and care of it. ... read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Sierra Club Books, San Francisco
Date Published: 1977
Description: VG in VG jacket. 4to. Signed by Author vii, 228pp, index, dark blue cloth with white spine lettering, minor wear at extremities and corners, else very clean and bright, in dust jacket with a few very small, discrete, closed tears at edges, housed in protective Brodart. Inscribed and signed by author at front fly, "Signed for _______ / Aug. 17, 1989 / With good wishes / Wendell Berry. " Included is an autograph note signed by the author, 4 lines, in black ink, at the top of a letter that had ... read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Avon Books
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780380401475ISBN:0380401479
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Highlighting/underlining. Some use wear, SPINE n PAGES CRISP n TIGHT. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House, Inc
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780871561947ISBN:0871561948
Description: Good. Moderate marking Underlining General Used Condiiton. Minor Defects may Exist. Minimal Shelf wear. Text may contain minor marking or highlighting, Binding Tight. Previous owners name or bookplate may be present. Customer Service isn't just a motto for us, its a way of life. read more
Edition: 3rd edition
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: SIERRA CLUB BOOKS
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780871568779ISBN:0871568772
Description: New. In The Unsettling of America Wendell Berry argues that good farming is a cultural development and spiritual discipline. Today's agribusiness, however, takes farming out of its cultural context and away from families, and as a nation we are thus more... read more
"My sister and I both read this book our Junior year of high school. I'm 26 now and she's 29...and we still talk about it. It discusses basically how we divorce ourselves from our actions and it's consequences on the earth by putting them in seperate spaces away from our daily lives. It seriously strikes a chord with me hearing common sense being put into words--we can't be surprised by the problems we are encountering in modern society knowing that we have chosen to live this way all along. Excellent book."
"Anyone who eats needs to take the time to consider where our food comes from. Berry helps the reader reconnect to the earth, and to the appreciate our culture that was lost by our abuse of the earth."
"Great collection of essays from the 70s most of which still resonate today. Berry comes across somewhat patriarchal but his messages about the importance of connecting with and valuing our land (understanding our food supply and cultivating an awareness/sense of place), not looking to technology for salvation/emancipating ourselves from our dependence on our cheap plastic consumer economy and its promotion of cheap fast labor instead of skilled, appreciating the knowledge of our ancestors, participating ethically in the circle of life, caring for the environment, questioning the agribusiness model, etc. are strong and clear so his at times moralistic and paternalistic tone can be overlooked. (His critique of the patronizing tone of much 1960s political rhetoric is well taken although dated.) I can see how reading these essays in the 70s might have been life altering for people but now that we have Barbara Kingsolver, Michael Pollan as well as a slew of others who offer countless critiques of big business and advocate building small-scale community relations his insights don't seem quite as fresh. Nontheless, there are fabulous lines like these: "Without a complex knowledge of one's place, and without the faithfulness to one's place on which such knowledge depends, it is inevitable that the place will be used carelessly, and eventually destroyed." and "I can think of no better form of personal involvement in the cure of the environment than that of gardening." and "It is by now a truism that the great emphasis of our present culture is upon things, things as things, things in quantity without respect to quality.""
"So if you've read anything that Barbara Kingsolver or Michael Pollan have written about food recently (which is quite a bit), you'll find that reading Wendell Berry is like going straight to the source, but about the larger picture of food production, agriculture, communities, society, and life in general. Berry wrote "Unsettling" in 1977, and it is absolutely terrifying and surreal how prescient he was then, and how important what he said still is for us today. Berry is a holistic thinker--interested in interrogating how we define health for ourselves and for our earth, and how really, the two are inextricably linked. "The body," Berry writes, "cannot be whole alone."
(I will say that he makes a slightly odd digression mid-book about monogamy & marriage, and I'm just not sure I'm ready to have even the great W.B. tell me not to have not-totally-committed-sex. But obviously that has a lot to do with me.)
I think part of the reason this book resonated so deeply with me was that I had the pleasure earlier this spring of hearing Berry live, right at a critical juncture where I didn't even know that I was dying to hear a southern drawl, but most certainly was. Into his 80s, he is just as thoughtful, funny, and wise. But, mostly, I think Berry is a revolutionary thinker, and "Unsettling" is a revolutionary book, which is a rarity of our times, to say the least."
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