Your New Life in the Country: How to Plan and Manage It for Enjoyment and Profit.In the early 1970s, young Americans alienated al·ien·ate tr.v. al·ien·at·ed, al·ien·at·ing, al·ien·ates 1. To cause to become unfriendly or hostile; estrange: alienate a friend; alienate potential supporters by taking extreme positions. from suburban and city life fled by the thousands to rural America America [for Amerigo Vespucci], the lands of the Western Hemisphere—North America, Central (or Middle) America, and South America. The world map published in 1507 by Martin Waldseemüller is the first known cartographic use of the name. . The books that stirred them up and followed them out were often fanciful fan·ci·ful adj. 1. Created in the fancy; unreal: a fanciful story. 2. Tending to indulge in fancy: a fanciful mind. 3. and poetic praise of rural life, holding out a naive naive - Untutored in the perversities of some particular program or system; one who still tries to do things in an intuitive way, rather than the right way (in really good designs these coincide, but most designs aren't "really good" in the appropriate sense). hope of almost total self-reliance self-re·li·ance n. Reliance on one's own capabilities, judgment, or resources; independence. self . Your New Life is the book they should have read. Wood hasn't written a complete guidebook to country life, but he does offer an excellent look into the personal options, the risks, the rewards, and the dollar and cents of trying to make a living in the country. The book has a few notable gaps, not the least of which is its almost total lack of attention to the potential for income from forest products and the pleasures of forest lands and woodlots. Nevertheless, for anyone who wants to consider moving into the country, this book will quickly lay before him a very broad range of considerations and suggest a logical sequence of decisions from choosing a home and land to buying machinery and helping children adjust. |
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