Having moved from New York fifteen years ago to become a Vermont farmer, Perrin recounts his mistakes in adjusting to country life and offers advice on such topics as sugaring, raising sheep, and making butter

First Person Rural

History

Perrin, Noel

Americas

Penguin??Books

Second Person Rural: More Essays of a Sometime Farmer

A collection of essays on the practice and philosophy of country life yields advice for sometime farmers, explores the differences between country and city, and considers the problems all transplanted city-dwellers must deal with

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Viking Pr

Essays discuss farm life, porcupines, potatoes, the birth of a calf, land taxes, home improvements, maple syrup production, wildflowers, and horses

Third Person Rural

The author describes how he drove his newly outfitted electric car from California to Vermont, and then put the car into daily service as a pollution-free commuter vehicle

Solo: Life With an Electric Car

Engineering & Transportation

Automotive

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

In the spring of 1991, Noel Perrin flew from Vermont to California to pick up his newly outfitted electric car, a former gas-guzzling Ford. It would not be easy, but Perrin planned to drive Solo--as the car was soon dubbed--home, a 3,100-mile drive. Here is the picturesque story of the trip--from Solo's struggle with gravity at Donner Pass to an encounter with a man with four electric cars in Rotterdam, New York.

Solo: Life with an Electric Car

W.W.Norton&Company

This is a significant story, and Perrin tells it marvelously well, with rich detail, captivating quotations from observers of the time, both Japanese and Western, and a wealth of revealing comparisons with contemporary technology, warfare, and life in Europe. This little book is both thought-provoking and a delight to read. Edwin O. Reischauer, Former U.S. Ambassador to Japan

Giving Up the Gun: Japan's Reversion to the Sword, 1543-1979

Shambhala Publications

Vermont: In All Weathers

Literature & Fiction

Avery

STATED FIRST PRINTING. 1992 Nonpareil(David R. Godine) trade paperback, Noel Perrin (The American Boy's Handy Book: What to Do and How to Do It, Centennial Edition). The history of censorship of the written and spoken word in England and America.

Dr. Bowdler's Legacy: A History of Expurgated Books in England and America

History & Criticism

Diane Pub Co.

Giving up the Gun: Japan's Reversion to the Sword, 1543-1879 [Large Print]

Asia

G.K. Hall

G.K.Hall & Co.

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