This chronicle of life along the Current and Jacks Fork rivers in the Missouri Ozarks has been called "required reading for everyone interested in the future of America." First published in 1958, it remains unsurpassed as an example of one man's love for the land and rivers around him and of a way of life all too much in danger of being lost to us.
The rivers described in Stars Upstream were designated by Congress in 1964 as the Ozark National Scenic Riverways, creating America's first national river. Granting of national park status has changed the area in many ways--the river system is now heavily used for recreational purposes--yet the concerns presented by Hall about the dangers of commercialism, exploitation, and pollution are still very much with us. Stars Upstream has played an invaluable role in promoting wise use of these rivers and should be read by everyone interested in preserving America's streams and wildlands as a national heritage.

Stars Upstream: Life Along an Ozark River (Volume 1)

Science & Math

Hall, Leonard

Nature & Ecology

University of Missouri

First published in 1956, Leonard Hall’s affectionate chronicle of the round of the seasons on a working farm in the eastern Missouri Ozarks is now available in a quality paperback reprint. These beautifully written essays on country sights, sounds, customs, animals, and people will have great appeal to a new generation of readers who are discovering the joys of rural self-sufficiency. Older readers will rejoice at the opportunity to renew their acquaintance with Len and Ginnie Hall and their adventures on Possum Trot Farm.Hall, a naturalist and a newspaperman, describes such homely farm chores as dehorning a calf so clearly that one paragraph teaches just how the work is done. His accounts of the events that mark the changing seasonsmigrating geese, budding trees, hunting, fishing, butchering, and simply walking through fields and woodsare remarkable for their unpretentious nostalgic beauty. ";Leonard Hall is a mid-Twentieth Century Thoreau

Journal of the Seasons on an Ozark Farm (Volume 1)

History

Americas

Earth's Song: "What Makes the Crops Rejoice, Beneath What Star to Plow, of These I Sing"

Literature & Fiction

Univ of Missouri Pr

A Journal of the Seasons on an Ozark Farm

The Evolution of Consciousness

BiblioLife

BiblioBazaar

The Evolution Of Consciousness (1901)

Religion & Spirituality

Kessinger Publishing

Kessinger Publishing, LLC

Stars Upstream: Life Along an Ozark River

This chronicle of life along the Current and Jacks Fork rivers in the Missouri Ozarks has been called "required reading for everyone interested in the future of America." First published in 1958, it remains unsurpassed as an example of one man's love for the land and rivers around him and of a way of life all too much in danger of being lost to us.The rivers described in "Stars Upstream" were designated by Congress in 1964 as the Ozark National Scenic Riverways, creating America's first national river. Granting of national park status has changed the area in many ways--the river system is now heavily used for recreational purposes--yet the concerns presented by Hall about the dangers of commercialism, exploitation, and pollution are still very much with us. "Stars Upstream" has played an invaluable role in promoting wise use of these rivers and should be read by everyone interested in preserving America's streams and wildlands as a national heritage.

Stars Upstream: Life Along An Ozark River

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Literary Licensing, LLC

Travel

United States

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