Northern Farm (book)
1948 book by Henry Beston
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Northern Farm: A Chronicle of Maine is a 1948 book by naturalist/writer Henry Beston. Originally written for The Progressive as a series of columns on country-living, it chronicles a season on a small Maine farm.[1][2] Beston is also the author of The Outermost House. Northern Farm has been less commercially successful but still important as environmental writing and popular among Mainers.[3]
Published in 1948, it is a series of short essays inspired by his life and observations at Chimney Farm, an 88-acre farm in Nobleboro that Beston and his wife, the late poet Elizabeth Coatsworth, purchased in 1931. ... It has long been out of print, except for a facsimile edition published in 2006 to raise funds for the preservation of the farm property, which in 2007 was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.[3]
 First edition cover | |
| Author | Henry Beston |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Thoreau MacDonald |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Publisher | Rinehart & Company |
Publication date | 1948 |
| Publication place | United States |
Annie Dillard's journal entry
The Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Dillard made a journal entry concerning Northern Farm:[4]
It was a bore. Not only did nothing happen, okay, but there was no trace of mind. As a naturalist he didn't teach me a thing. He didn't even bother to look up fireflies. As an observer of the social scene, which is a boring thing to be in the 1st place, he's ordinary and conservative. No imagination.[4]
