Round of a Country Year: A Farmer's Day Book

A "twentieth–century Henry David Thoreau" records the quotidian goings–on on his organic family farm

Under David Kline's attentive gaze and in his clear, insightful prose the reader is enveloped in the rhythms of farm life; not only the planting and harvesting of crops throughout the year, but the migration patterns of birds, the health and virility of honeybees left nearly to their own devices, the songs and silences of frogs and toads, the disappearance and resurgence of praying mantises i...