Overview
In 1942, a 19-year-old University of Kentucky biology student began keeping a logbook at the camp he and a buddy had built along Salt River in central Kentucky. Part field journal, part diary, it chronicles the outdoor adventures of a group of young men in rural America just before they are called to serve during World War II. Their story is a reminder of a time when our lives were more rooted in the natural world, before a global war and the industries and public institutions it spawned accelerated our dislocation from our homes and our land. After serving as a lieutenant in Patton's army, the author, John C. Goodlett, continued his studies as a biologist at Harvard Forest and eventually accepted a position as a plant geographer at Johns Hopkins University. His life was cut short at age 44, but his academic contributions and these earliest journal notations reveal a man committed to the study of the natural world and the joys it offers its human inhabitants.
Full Product Details
Author: John C Goodlett ,
David Hoefer ,
Sallie Goodlett Showalter
Publisher: Murky Press
Imprint: Murky Press
Dimensions:
Width: 12.70cm
, Height: 1.40cm
, Length: 20.30cm
Weight: 0.263kg
ISBN: 9780999254004
ISBN 10: 0999254006
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 18 August 2017
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
Some of Pud's colleagues and graduate students of the 1960s are now in their eighties, with their own grad students at the edge of retirement, and their students reading the draft theses of a fourth generation. All along the chain they will be surprised at the way their own curiosities, their precision in observation, their eagerness to share it over food and drink, or their struggle to put it into words have been nourished by long-ago encounters of a redheaded kid... --Sherry Olson, McGill University [This journal] says everything about Pud and what he taught me and how I taught students for the rest of my academic career. As he used to say, 'Plants grow where you find 'em, ' which was not only a metaphor for plant geography, but a metaphor for life. I read his journal with great interest to see the roots of his love of nature, of life, and the people who surrounded him. --Alan Strahler, Boston University
Author Information
John C. Goodlett was a professor of plant geography at Johns Hopkins University. David Hoefer is an adjunct instructor in the anthropology department at the University of Louisville. Sallie Showalter is a writer and editor living in Georgetown, Kentucky.
