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9781606354933 Academic Inspection Copy

Ghosts of an Old Forest

Essays on Midwestern Rural Heritage
  • ISBN-13: 9781606354933
  • Publisher: THE KENT STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: THE KENT STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Deborah Fleming
  • Price: AUD $64.99
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  • Local release date: 28/07/2025
  • Format: Hardback (216.00mm X 140.00mm) 168 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Natural history [WN]
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In the Ohio counties of the Alleghany Plateau, 9th-century barns hewn from old-growth wood rest near remnant forests, reminders of the state's deep agricultural roots and rich ecological past. Through fourteen linked, meditative essays, Deborah Fleming, author of the award-winning Resurrection of the Wild: Meditations on Ohio's Natural Landscape, persuasively and passionately argues for protecting these vestiges of the region's natural and rural history. Fleming describes domesticated and wild nature on her farm delves into Ohio's rich history of agriculture tackles the issues of litter and pollution decries the practice of hydraulic fracturing (or "fracking") and reflects on changes in communities bordering rivers, which are often the most exploited by extraction industries. The result is an evocative collection, which traces Ohio's natural and cultural history-and serves as an urgent call to preserve its splendor.
Deborah Fleming is the author of Resurrection of the Wild: Meditations on Ohio's Natural Landscape, which won the PEN-America Diamonstein/Spielvogel Art of the Essay Award for 2 2 . She has also published five collections of poetry, a novel, and four volumes of scholarship. Previously a professor of English at Ashland University and winner of the Faculty Research Award, she served for many years as director and editor of the Ashland Poetry Press.
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