An Inspiring Year on a New EngLand Hill Farm Hal Borland, whose nature essays graced the Sunday New York Times for almost 4 decades, transported readers to a simpler time and place by his intimate perspective on weather, flowers, birds, and the changing seasons.
This Hill, This Valley is also available from Echo Point Books in hardcover (1635619114)..
Be sure to read Hall Borland\'s other bestselling classics, also available from Echo Point Books: When the Legends Die: The Timeless Coming-of-Age Story about a Native American Boy Caught Between Two Worlds (hardcover 1635618630, paperback 1635618649)
The Dog Who Came to Stay: A Memoir (hardcover 1635618835, paperback 1635618843)
Sundial of the Seasons (hardcover 1635619084, paperback 1635619076)
Hal Borland\'s Book of Days (hardcover 163561706X, paperback 1635617596)
Hal Borland\'s Twelve Moons of the Year (hardcover 1635619017, paperback 1635619009); and High, Wide and Lonesome: Growing Up on the Colorado Frontier (paperback 1635618827).
This Hill, This Valley ushers us eloquently through a year on the farm in an area known as Weatogue: Spring: (The apple trees are in bloom, and a magnificent sight); summer: (One of the most difficult of all sounds to put down on paper is the song of a bird.); autumn: (October is the fallen leaf, but it is also the wider horizon more clearly seen.); winter: (The sparrows make Winter a pleasanter time for any countryman.) Deeply satisfying, these classic vignettes may be enjoyed for just a few minutes or all afternoon.
I have spent the months and years since, living with This small fraction of the universe and trying to know its meaning-to own it, that is, in terms of observation and understanding.
BorLand describes his process: We came here, not to a cabin in the wilderness but to a farmhouse beside a river.
From that place-for 36 years-he composed the essays which provided a calming rejuvenation for his legions of avid followers.
After being hospitalized with a dangerous bout of appendicitis and reassessing his values, he and his wife decided to retreat to a farm in the Berkshire Hills of northwest Connecticut.
An Inspiring Year on a New EngLand Hill Farm Hal Borland, whose nature essays graced the Sunday New York Times for almost 4 decades, transported readers to a simpler time and place by his intimate perspective on weather, flowers, birds, and the changing seasons
