40 Acres and No Mule (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780813108094)

In the late 1940s, Janice and Henry Giles moved from Louisville, Kentucky, back to the Appalachian hill country where Henry had grown up and where his family had lived since the time of the Revolution. With their savings, the couple bought a ramshackle house and forty acres of land on a ridge top and set out to be farmers like Henry's forebears. To this personal account of the trials of a city woman trying to learn the ways of the country and of her neighbors, Janice Holt Giles brings the same

Author: Janice Holt Giles
ISBN-10: 0813108098
ISBN-13: 9780813108094
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 09/15/1992
Pages: 248
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 8.45h x 5.50w x 0.62d