The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture (Signed)
San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Tall octavo. xii, 228 pages.
Berry's brilliant examination of the evolution of American farming in the context of culture and ecology. He challenges the "get big or get out" philosophy that has dramatically changed farming and unsettled its communities. Argues that in turning the time-hallowed act of food production into a corporate exercise in maximum production, we have become estranged from the land.
Inscribed and signed by Berry on front free endpaper thusly: "Signed for Jim / With the good wishes / of a fellow farmer. / Wendell Berry"
Very good in a very good dust jacket. Bound in dark blue cloth over boards with spine titled in white, upper board titled in blind, with light brown endpapers. Slight rubs at extremities, small bookseller label on rear pastedown. Jacket has a closed 1" edge tear at top of upper joint fold, another at top edge of rear panel, and one more 1/2" tear at top of front panel near fore edge fold. All three have been taped from underside by a prior owner. Jacket shows other minor edge wear, shallow rubs, and a tiny chip at top fore corner of upper joint fold.
Item #2110
ISBN: 0871561948
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