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Farm: A Year in the Life of an American Farmer
Author(s): Richard Rhodes (Author)
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Publication Date: October 15, 1989
- Language: English
- Print length: 320 pages
- ISBN-10: 0671636472
- ISBN-13: 9780671636470
Book Description
This book has no scholarly paraphernalia at all a departure for the author of the meticulously researched, Pulitzer Prize-winning history The Making of the atomic bomb . The narrative is based on detailed notes Rhodes kept in 42 special notebooks during a year he spent visiting and working on a family farm in central Missouri. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Editorial Reviews
From School Library Journal
YA– Readers will gain a sound understanding of modern farm life through this actual account of the risks and rewards, the daily duties, and the long-range planning undertaken by Tom and Sally Bauer and their three children on their central Missouri farm. Actual conversations and specific details give documentarylike immediacy as the Bauers confront real problems and work through to solutions. Readers learn of the family’s ethnic background and ethical beliefs through their telling comments on nature, creatures, and society within and outside the family. Precise illustrations of equipment and natural scenes validate a modern farm family’s existence. –Carolyn Trachta, formerly at Clear Creek High School, League City, TX
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
