The Inland Island - Hardcover

Josephine W. Johnson

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0671201778 ISBN 13: 9780671201777

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1969

Synopsis

"The Inland Island" is a powerful, evocative and lyrical description of nature's changes, wonders and tragedies, recorded in the twelve months of the year by a marvelously perceptive and original observer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Josephine Johnson. This is a "nature book," but a deceptively simple one: for, like Thoreau, Miss Johnson goes far beyond a mere description of nature. Her "inland island" is both her own farm - an enclosure of wilderness surrounded by an ever more savage and intrusive society - and the burning core of her convictions about man's cruelty, the demands of individual conscience at a time of war and conflict, her own determination to resist an increasingly brutalized and mechanical civilization.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 1969
• ISBN 10: 0671201778
• ISBN 13: 9780671201777
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 159
• Illustrator: Mel Klapholz