Jane Brox: 3 books
Clearing Land
Legacies of the American Farm
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2005
Though few of us now live close to the soil, the world we inhabit has been sculpted by our long national saga of settlement. At the heart of our identity lies the notion of the family farm, as shaped by European history and reshaped by the vast opportunities of the continent. It lies at the heart...
Brilliant
The Evolution of Artificial Light
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010
Brilliant, reminiscent of Lewis Hyde’s The Gift in its reach and of Timothy Egan’s The Worst Hard Time in its haunting evocation of human lives, offers a sweeping view of a surprisingly revealing aspect of human history—from the stone lamps of the Pleistocene to the LEDs embedded in fabrics...
Here and Nowhere Else
Late Seasons of a Farm and Its Family
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2004
In her first book, which won the L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award, Jane Brox writes of going back to the farm where she grew up, to help her aging father and the troubled brother who works the land with him. She memorably captures the cadences of farm life and the people who sustain it, at a time when both are waning.