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View From Fazenda Tale Of Brazilian Heartlands
Author: Ellen Bromfield Geld

"Before the days began to grow long and the first rains made it possible to plow in September . . . we would have begun the immense job of laying contour ditches over an entire fazenda, which, indiscriminately deprived of its forest and planted up and down hill for centuries, in many places was gradually washing its way toward the Tietê River." ... more » "Ellen Bromfield Geld couldn't have had a better teacher in all the world than her father. Her writing and her life in Brazil vividly reflect the strength of Louis Bromfield's convictions, his love of the land and the enduring importance of his legacy." ?Lauren Bacall ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "I imagine everyone has a center of gravity," says Ellen Geld. "Something which binds one to the earth and gives sense and direction to what one does." Ellen?s is a writing table before a window that looks through the trees and down the slope to the croplands, revealing the changing scenes in a place that has become a way of life. The place is Fazenda Pau D?Alho, Brazil, where she and her husband Carson have lived and farmed since 1961. The changing scenes describe planting groves of coffee and pecans, and pasturing cattle in seas of grass. From her writing table, Ellen Geld here gives us View from the Fazenda, intricately weaving the threads of daily life on the farm into the broader pattern she has come to recognize in her quest for the knowledge of a country. Beginning with the serendipitous trip from her native Ohio to the outward reaches of Brazil, Geld provides us with a firsthand account of a remarkable adventure and an extraordinary life. Everywhere, using plain talk and warm humor, she seeks the character of a people who?arriving as immigrants or slaves, their blood and history mingled with that of native Indians?have created the true character of Brazil: a huge, diverse country, living in several eras at the same time, yet ever changing in its people?s amazing ability to "find a way." Ellen Bromfield Geld, writer and farmer, lives in Brazil. She has long written for Brazil?s leading newspaper, O Estado de São Paulo, and is the author of nine books, including The Heritage, The Garlic Tree, and A Timeless Place, for which she won the Ohioana Book Award. Also by Ellen Bromfield Geld: The Heritage: A Daughter?s Memoir of Louis Bromfield

ISBN-13: 9780821414743
ISBN-10: 0821414747
Publication Date: 2/1/2003
Pages: 320
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Publisher: Ohio University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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