Accidental shepherd how a California girl rescued an ancient mountain farm in Norway
"In May 1972, twenty-year-old Liese Greensfelder arrived in a small Norwegian town prepared for her first summer farmhand job, only to learn the startling news that she'd need to singlehandedly watch over the centuries-old farm while its owner recovered from a stroke. Confronted with dangers and obs...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2024]
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| Summary: | "In May 1972, twenty-year-old Liese Greensfelder arrived in a small Norwegian town prepared for her first summer farmhand job, only to learn the startling news that she'd need to singlehandedly watch over the centuries-old farm while its owner recovered from a stroke. Confronted with dangers and obstacles for which she was utterly unprepared, she tells a story of remarkable resilience and records the fascinating but rapidly vanishing traditions of the community that took her in"-- Provided by publisher. |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | x, 269 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations (some color), map 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781517917661 9781517919788 |
| Author Notes: | 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. |
