Liese Greensfelder

Gebundenes Buch

Accidental Shepherd

How a California Girl Rescued an Ancient Mountain Farm in Norway

Beschreibung

A summer job turns serious when a young woman takes the reins on a remote farmâ and learns far more than how to herd sheep. In May 1972, Liese Greensfelder arrived in the small Norwegian town of à ystese to startling news: Johannes, the farmer who hired her for the summer, had just been hospitalized after a stroke.

Autor

Liese Greensfelder is a freelance writer focusing on medicine, biology, and agriculture. She has worked as a farm advisor for the University of California Cooperative Extension and as a science writer for UC San Francisco and UC Berkeley, and she initiated an agricultural development project in the Guatemalan highlands. In 1975, an epistolary account of her first six months on Johannes’s farm became a bestselling book in Norway. She lives in rural Nevada County, California, on the western slope of the Sierra Nevada mountains.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 166mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 636g
• ISBN-13: 9781517917661
• ISBN-10: 1517917662
• Artikelnr.: 70541653