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A Girl Of The Limberlost: A Novel About A Smart And Ambitious Girl - 9781805470960

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Set amid Indiana's vast Limberlost Swamp, this treasured children's classic mixes astute observations on nature with the struggles of growing up in the early 20th century. Harassed by her mother and scorned by her peers, Elnora Comstock finds solace in natural beauty along with friendship, independence, and romance. -- Cornfields, soy fields, alfalfa fields - Indiana has long been seen as an agricultural plain. But to make it a lucrative farming state, much of the land had to be deforested, leaving behind devastated habitats. The Limberlost, a wetland in northern Indiana, was mostly destroyed by drainage, logging and oil production. Gene Stratton-Porter, an early 20th-century naturalist and novelist, captured the fading beauty of the swamp in books like A Girl of the Limberlost, a novel about a smart, ambitious girl who lives in the dwindling wetland with her mother and pays for school by collecting local moth specimens to sell to naturalists. The book isn't exactly an environmentalist tract, but it makes the case nonetheless: It celebrates the beauty and richness of the swampland, while showing how easily economic forces push landowners to strip it away.



Author: Gene Stratton-Porter
Publisher: Intel Premium Book
Publication Date: Sep 07, 2023
Number of Pages: 202 pages
Language: English
Binding: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1805470965
ISBN-13: 9781805470960

A Girl Of The Limberlost: A Novel About A Smart And Ambitious Girl - 9781805470960

$18.99
$17.48
Sale 8%
 
Set amid Indiana's vast Limberlost Swamp, this treasured children's classic mixes astute observations on nature with the struggles of growing up in the early 20th century. Harassed by her mother and scorned by her peers, Elnora Comstock finds solace in natural beauty along with friendship, independence, and romance. -- Cornfields, soy fields, alfalfa fields - Indiana has long been seen as an agricultural plain. But to make it a lucrative farming state, much of the land had to be deforested, leaving behind devastated habitats. The Limberlost, a wetland in northern Indiana, was mostly destroyed by drainage, logging and oil production. Gene Stratton-Porter, an early 20th-century naturalist and novelist, captured the fading beauty of the swamp in books like A Girl of the Limberlost, a novel about a smart, ambitious girl who lives in the dwindling wetland with her mother and pays for school by collecting local moth specimens to sell to naturalists. The book isn't exactly an environmentalist tract, but it makes the case nonetheless: It celebrates the beauty and richness of the swampland, while showing how easily economic forces push landowners to strip it away.



Author: Gene Stratton-Porter
Publisher: Intel Premium Book
Publication Date: Sep 07, 2023
Number of Pages: 202 pages
Language: English
Binding: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1805470965
ISBN-13: 9781805470960
 

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