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Small farms and family values, hard-won success, and tough love for tough times: when we talk about America as an image and an ideal it is generally the enduring reality of middle-American virtue, deep roots, and rural life that we imagine. Focusing on Adams County in the Columbia Plateau in eastern Washington, Drylands, a Rural American Saga is a pictorial essay documenting the reality underlying our national self-portrait. Both an exception to and a paradigm of the country's agricultural folkways, Adams County offers a panorama of rolling cropland, sagebrush scree, and deep coulees formed by volcanic forces and ice-age floods. The shortage of rainfall, however, mocks the richness of the soils produced by prehistoric events. Yet as documented in these pages, the harvests of Adams County produce a significant share of America's food, standing as clear testimony to the skill and perseverance of those who work the land. Lionel Delevingne's evocative photographs capture the essence of life centred on the annual rhythm of cultivation, planting, harvest, and marketing. His lens also captures the troubles that have led to abandoned farmsteads, shrinking towns, and shuttered local businesses. Together with Steve Turner's stirring essays, Delevingne's photographs provide a true portrait of the American landscape, of those who have failed, those who have prospered, and those who struggle on, unseen by motorists speeding by on the interstate.

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Book category Books in English Lifestyle, sport & leisure Travel & holiday Places & peoples: general & pictorial works

• Full title: Drylands, a Rural American Saga
• Author: Steve Turner
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 144
• EAN: 9780803234246
• ISBN: 0803234244
• ID: 04419001
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Weight: 599 g
• Dimensions: 178 × 254 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. October 2011

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