2Sakerfalcon
I love SOJ's writing, and Country of the Pointed Firs is especially beautiful. You feel as though you are on the Maine coast with the author enjoying a gentle summer.
3asurbanipal
I discovered this book in Poland. I'm always interested in provincial settings, nature, trees. I had a physical copy in my hands at a library. Generally, older American literature is better than people think. It was strongly set in the landscape, which was being 'terraformed.'
4fuzzi
>3 asurbanipal: if you can find them, I highly recommend two authors that would probably interest you:
James Oliver Curwood writes about northwest North America, late 1800s, early 1900s. I like how he writes, knowing the wilderness and the people of the time. He was a conservationist way before the movement, and it shows in his compositions.
Anne Bosworth Greene wrote about living on a farm in New England, including two "pony" books that work well as either a child or adult read. I loved The Lone Winter which is a journal of sorts about her first winter living alone on a Vermont farm. You can find her books fairly cheaply online if not locally Here's an example of her writing:
"There was another mountain to go over today; a charming road, leading up through golden woods flecked with sunlight, while a clear brook dashed along, dodging great mossy boulders and giving silver leaps down its many waterfalls. Sometimes you find a brook that seems dull and out of humor, lurking swampily behind muddy-footed alders, or making its sullen way through a bog, but this one was specially filled with mountain joy and raced along, laughing and splashing, while families of golden ferns lighted its brown pools."
James Oliver Curwood writes about northwest North America, late 1800s, early 1900s. I like how he writes, knowing the wilderness and the people of the time. He was a conservationist way before the movement, and it shows in his compositions.
Anne Bosworth Greene wrote about living on a farm in New England, including two "pony" books that work well as either a child or adult read. I loved The Lone Winter which is a journal of sorts about her first winter living alone on a Vermont farm. You can find her books fairly cheaply online if not locally Here's an example of her writing:
"There was another mountain to go over today; a charming road, leading up through golden woods flecked with sunlight, while a clear brook dashed along, dodging great mossy boulders and giving silver leaps down its many waterfalls. Sometimes you find a brook that seems dull and out of humor, lurking swampily behind muddy-footed alders, or making its sullen way through a bog, but this one was specially filled with mountain joy and raced along, laughing and splashing, while families of golden ferns lighted its brown pools."
5asurbanipal
I'm in Poland, and Curwood was well-known here. The other author not at all, I have never heard her name either.
