Out of This World - A Journey of Healing

Informationen zum Autor Mary Swander is Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa State University. A regular commentator on Iowa Public Radio, she is the author of, among others, The Desert Pilgrim , Heaven-and-Earth House , Driving the Body Back (Iowa paperback, 1998), and Parsnips in the Snow (with Jane Staw, Iowa, 1990), and editor of The Healing Circle: Authors on Recovery from Illness , Bloom and Blossom , and Land of the Fragile Giants (with Cornelia Mutel, Iowa, 1994). Klappentext When a severe allergic illness dictates that she grow all her own food, Mary Swander finds herself living in a former one-room schoolhouse in the midst of the largest Amish community west of the Mississippi. In this simple yet profound memoir, she shares her experiences as she explores what it means to be a lone woman homesteader at the end of the 20th century, discovering the quiet spirituality born of a life on the land. Zusammenfassung When a life-threatening allergic illness demanded that she eat only organically grown food! writer and professor Mary Swander built a new life in a former one-room Iowa schoolhouse in the middle of the largest Amish community west of the Mississippi. This memoir shares the radical transformation of her life.

Product details

• Authors: Mary Swander
• Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.04.2008
• EAN: 9781587296376
• ISBN: 978-1-58729-637-6
• No. of pages: 276
• Dimensions: 121 mm x 191 mm x 13 mm
• Series: A Bur Oak Book; Bur Oak Books; Bur Oak Books; Bur Oak Book
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies