The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture

The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture

By
Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry
1977 • 246 pages

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Of The Land

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Soil And Sacrament

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Urban Planning

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Non Fiction

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Environmental Science

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Agriculture

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Whole Earth

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