{"product_id":"inland-island-book-josephine-johnson-9781884910241","title":"The Inland Island","description":"\u003cb\u003eA beautiful book...about nature the way \u003ci\u003eWalden\u003c\/i\u003e was a book about nature. It should be read by everyone who still retains the capacity to feel anything (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eStunningly written and fiercely observed, a new edition of a classic work of nature writing about a year on an Ohio farm, by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Josephine Johnson.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOriginally published in 1969, \u003ci\u003eThe Inland Island\u003c\/i\u003e is Josephine W. Johnson's startling and brilliant chronicle of nature and the seasons at her rambling thirty-seven-acre farm in Ohio, which she and her husband reverted to wilderness with the help of a state forester. Over the course of twelve months, she observes the changing landscape with a naturalist's precision and a poet's evocative language. Readers will marvel at the way she brings to life flashes of beauty, the inexorable cycle of growth and decay, and the creatures who live alongside her, great and small. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA forerunner of iconic American women nature writers and a champion of civil rights who marched in Washington against the Vietnam war, Johnson intersperses these delicate marvels (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) with profound reflections about racial inequality, urbanization, social justice, and environmental destruction that speak powerfully to our time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eReady to be rediscovered by a new generation, \u003ci\u003eThe Inland Island \u003c\/i\u003eis a vital and relevant meditation on nature and time, capturing the wonder, beauty, hope--and flaws--of our turbulent world.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49888503660817,"sku":"GOR005785129","price":18.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49890940158225,"sku":"GOR007728504","price":15.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50402046640401,"sku":"CIN1884910246G","price":7.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51455404376337,"sku":"CIN1884910246VG","price":8.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1884910246.jpg?v=1751027847","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/inland-island-book-josephine-johnson-9781884910241","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}