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1	Foxfire 2 more books like this by Eliot Wigginton (Editor) add to wishlist Interviews and essays describe the way of life and crafts of pioneer America still surviving in the Appalachian region. see all copies from $2.75! new only from $9.15! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Foxfire 7 more books like this by Paul F Gillespie (Editor) add to wishlist Appalachian art, culture, and religious heritage is included in this volume. see all copies from $8.98! new only from $10.96! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on My Family Farm more books like this by David Mas Masumoto add to wishlist Drawing upon Masumoto's own experience as a Japanese American peach and grape farmer, this novel follows his attempt not just to keep his peaches alive but to farm in a new way, working with and not against nature. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Clabbered dirt, sweet grass more books like this by Gary Paulsen add to wishlist A prose poem tribute to a vanishing way of life. Award-winning writer Gary Paulsen has created a lyrical masterpiece rich with unforgettable vignettes that weave a seamless fabric--stories of love and death, cold and heat, crops and stock, rolling hills and hay so sweet you could eat the grass. Never has there been such a farm story. 9 full-color ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.96! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Don't Be Afraid, Gringo: A Honduran Woman Speaks from the Heart: The Story of Elvia Alvarado more books like this by Medea Benjamin (Editor), Elvia Alvarado add to wishlist Trained by the Catholic Church to organize women's groups to combat malnutrition, Alvarado, a woman with a second-grade education, began to question the wretched conditions she saw around her. She became one of her country's leading political activists. 14 pages of halftones. PBS documentary scheduled for May. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.00! \| first editions \| SVS
6	The moral basis of a backward society more books like this by Edward C. Banfield add to wishlist see all copies from $3.60! new only from $10.47! \| SVS
7	Grow It!: The Beginner's Complete In-Harmony-With-Nature Small Farm Guide; From Vegetable and Grain Growing to Livestock Care more books like this by Richard W. Langer add to wishlist For anyone who owns land - whether it be five or fifty acres - this is an indispensable guide to small-scale organic farming, with advice on everything from building and stocking a pond to planting an orchard or making cheese." Grow It "presents a philosophy and life-style in tune with today's concern for the environment. see all copies from $1.99!
8	Chinese Village, Socialist State more books like this by Edward Friedman, Professor Mark Selden, Professor Paul G Pickowicz add to wishlist This is a portrait of social change in the North China Plain which depicts how the world of the Chinese peasant evolved during an era of war and revolution and how it in turn shaped the revolutionary process. The authors spent a decade interviewing villagers and rural officials, exploring archives and investigating villagers with diverse resources ... see all copies from $7.66! new only from $23.10! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Stillmeadow Road more books like this by Gladys Taber add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town more books like this by Nick Reding add to wishlist "Methland" tells the story of Oelwein, Iowa, which, like thousands of other small towns across the country, has been affected by one of the most dangerous drugs in the world. see all copies from $17.90! new only from $17.90! \| first editions \| SVS
11	Hole in the Sky: A Memoir more books like this by William Kittredge add to wishlist The Great Basin--an area the size of France carved out of Oregon, California, and Nevada--and a ranch as big as Rhode Island; for three generations this was Kittredge land and William Kittredge's birthright. Here he tells how this dream turned into an adulthood of dislocation and loss, the end of a way of life. Excerpts in Harper's, Esquire, and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.56! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Rural Communities: Legacy and Change more books like this by Cornelia Butler Flora, Jan L Flora add to wishlist Rural America is a complex mixture of peoples and cultures struggling for survival through innovative approaches to their problems. These people range from laid-off miners in West Virginia to Laotian immigrants relocating in Kansas to entrepreneurs planning a world-class ski resort in Californias Sierra Nevada. These rural Americans are seldom ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Land Remembers more books like this by Ben Logan add to wishlist The struggles and triumphs of Logan's farm family in Depression-era Wisconsin are brought vividly to life in this audio edition of the classic story. A beautiful account about the heritage of family values and rural life. see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	Men's lives more books like this by Peter Matthiessen add to wishlist Available for the first time in a text-only edition, Peter Matthiessen's acclaimed Men's Lives should enjoy the kind of success that greeted John McPhee's Pine Barrens and William Warner's Beautiful Swimmers. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.18! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	ABC of Poultry Raising more books like this by J H Florea add to wishlist Second, thoroughly revised (1977) edition of probably finest guide available for successfully raising small flock of chickens. 53 illustrations. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.81! \| SVS
16 view cover	Staying Put: Making a Home in a Restless World more books like this by Scott Russell Sanders add to wishlist "In the tradition of Wendell Berry, Sanders champions fidelity to place, informed by ecological awareness, arguing that intimacy with one's home region is the grounding for global knowledge. "Reflective, rhapsodic, luminous essays. . . . A wise and beautifully written book." -Publishers Weekly, starred review see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.94! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Bingo Night at the Fire Hall: Rediscovering Life in an American Village more books like this by Barbara Holland add to wishlist The author writes about her migration from Philadelphia to a cabin she inherited in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. As an alien in a small rural community, she describes how she learned to adjust to a slower pace of life. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.63! \| signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	The River Cottage cookbook more books like this by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Simon Wheeler (Photographer) add to wishlist Published to tie in with the third series of the acclaimed Channel 4 River Cottage , this book draws on Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's experiences at his home in Dorset. Hugh writes:"There are two reasons why you may want to buy this book. The first is more or less selfish, because the main aim here is simply to help you enjoy your life more - your ... see all copies from $21.90! new only from $21.90! \| SVS
19 view cover	Village Life in Late Tsarist Russia more books like this by Olga Semyonova Tian-Shanskaia add to wishlist " ...a marvelous source for the social history of Russian peasant society in the years before the revolution...The translation is superb." - Steven Hoch. " ...one of the best ethnographic portraits that we have of the Russian village...a highly readable text that is an excellent introduction to the world of the Russian peasantry." - Samuel C. ... see all copies from $2.95! new only from $14.02! \| first editions
20 view cover	One Acre & Security: How to Live Off the Earth Without Ruining It more books like this by Bradford Angier add to wishlist Bradford Angier's classic One Acre and Security is a book for all those who have dreamed of living close to the earth, not in the wilderness, but on land within easy driving distance of the city or suburbs. It begins by explaining what sort of land to look for, where to look and how to make sure of land titles. It goes on to discuss organic ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.19! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Dispatches from the Muckdog Gazette: A Mostly Affectionate Account of a Small Town's Fight to Survive more books like this by Bill Kauffman add to wishlist Kauffman describes his move back to his hometown of Batavia, New York, from Washington, D.C., and the social biology of hometown living, with humorous depictions of local quirks and a 20-year reunion. A personal history of Batavia, DISPATCHES FROM THE MUCKDOG GAZETTE shows a real town with real problems. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	The Old Barn Book: A Field Guide to North American Barns and Other Farm Structures more books like this by Allen G Noble, M Margaret Geib (Illustrator), Richard K Cleek add to wishlist A reference guide to barns and other rural structures, this book explains the difference between Dutch and Swedish barns, for example, and those designed for animals or crops. It details their peculiar construction methods and architectural styles, as well as pinpointing their geographic location. see all copies from $11.25! new only from $17.38! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	The Cowboy at Work more books like this by Fay E Ward add to wishlist An old-time cowboy colorfully describes every detail of the working cowhand's life and job. Captivating reading for working cowboys and illustrated with 600 drawings and diagrams by the author, this book is also as indispensable for the dude ranch wrangler as it is for the armchair bronc-buster and anyone interested in cowboy life. see all copies from $8.95! new only from $9.15! \| signed copies \| first editions
24 view cover	Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household more books like this by Thavolia Glymph add to wishlist The plantation household was, first and foremost, a site of production. This fundamental fact has generally been overshadowed by popular and scholarly images of the plantation household as the source of slavery's redeeming qualities, where 'gentle' mistresses ministered to 'loyal' slaves. This book recounts a very different story. The very notion ... see all copies from $16.59! new only from $16.59! \| SVS
25	At Nature's Pace: Farming and the American Dream more books like this by Gene Logsdon, Wendell Berry (Introduction by) add to wishlist The author explains why today's single-crop megafarms and the urban communities that depend on them are headed toward economic and biological crises. As he travels into the Amish country, a community whose care of the land and integration of business and family life offer valuable lessons, he reminds us of the importance of biological and ... see all copies from $2.98! new only from $48.99! \| first editions

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	The Foxfire Book: Hog Dressing, Log Cabin Building, Mountain Crafts and Foods, Planting by the Signs, Snake Lore, Hunting Tales, Faith Healing, Moonshining by Foxfire Fund Inc, Eliot Wigginton (Editor) see all from $3.40! new only from $10.32!
	Foxfire 5 by Foxfire Fund Inc, Eliot Wigginton (Editor) see all from $7.47! new only from $10.22!
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