Battlefield Farming a Civil War Battleground |
|
| Author:
| Svenson, Peter |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8018-6447-6 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2000 |
| Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press
|
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $44.99 |
Book Description:
|
''This compelling memoir is by turns charming and chilling. As the artist-author restores a forty-acre farm field and builds a house in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, making the mistakes of a city slicker but somehow bumbling through to success, he also uncovers the story of the Battle of Cross Keys that was fought on his land 125 years earlier. ......
''This compelling memoir is by turns charming and chilling. As the artist-author restores a forty-acre farm field and builds a house in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, making the mistakes of a city slicker but somehow bumbling through to success, he also uncovers the story of the Battle of Cross Keys that was fought on his land 125 years earlier. ......