Snow Comes to the Farm

Winter had come. The bare trees and grey hills said so. The frozen ground and ice on the pond said so. A day comes, after the leaves have fallen and the wild geese have left for warmer places when the air holds its breath, still and full of expectation. Snow is coming, and soon farmland and forest, ground and sky will be transformed. This story of two brothers, waiting and watching in the owl woods for the first snow of winter, is told with quiet drama and grace and illustrated with paintings of astonishing beauty.

Tripp, Nathaniel

Children's Books

Walker Childrens Paperbacks

As Ben bales the freshly cut hay on his farm and nearby animals hunt for food for their young, the right weather conditions create a raging thunderstorm that moves swiftly toward them

Thunderstorm!

Literature & Fiction

Dial

Thunderstorm

Science, Nature & How It Works

During a snowstorm, a farm child goes to the woods to watch the ground turn white, observe animal tracks, and spot an owl gliding through the trees. By the illustrator of Crab Moon.

Geography & Cultures

Candlewick

Time-honored designs for erecting any farm structure from dairy barn to smokehouse. Includes 250 historical and practical illustrations.

Barns and Outbuildings: And How to Build Them

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Halsted, Byron David

Pets & Animal Care

Lyons Pr

We are the river, and the river is us. We carry the same chemicals; pesticides and heavy metals, antibiotics and estrogen in our bloodstreams. From the Mekong River in Vietnam, where he served as platoon leader during the Vietnam War, to the Connecticut River near his farm in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, rivers have coursed through the life of Nathaniel Tripp. And as part of the Connecticut River Joint Commission, a bi-state advisory body made up of members from two states the river divides, Vermont and New Hampshire, he has gotten an education about rivers beyond any he could have imagined. He has worked with scientists, bureaucrats, politicians, lobbyists, property holders, and advocacy groups to balance federal, state, corporate, and individual interests. This book is a true confluence of art and science, politics and pragmatism, ideas and plans for action. It highlights the ways in which rivers connect us all to one another. While our society has made great progress in terms of local environmental improvement, such as cleaner water, we’re still dodging the big issues, such as global warming. And it’s getting worse. We have lost the vision of our planet gained in 1969 when astronauts sent back photographs taken from the moon. Projects such as the restoration of the Atlantic salmon are politicized to become red herrings that divide us, and today’s runaway “free market” economy eschews long-term planning and marginalizes true environmentalism. The time is right for someone to remind us, in a clear and meaningful way, about the things that matter most. And Nathaniel Tripp does just that.

Confluence: A River, The Environment, Politics, and the Fate of All Humanity

Science & Math

Earth Sciences

Steerforth

This book is a true confluence of art and science, politics and pragmatism, ideas and plans for action. It highlights the ways in which rivers connect us all to one another. While our society has made great progress in terms of local environmental improvement, such as cleaner water, we’re still dodging the big issues, such as global warming. We have lost the vision of our planet gained in 1969 when astronauts sent back photographs taken from the moon.

Confluence: A River, the Environment, Politics and the Fate of All Humanity

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Nathaniel Tripp grew up fatherless in a house full of women, and he arrived in Vietnam as a just-promoted second lieutenant in the summer of 1968 with no memory of a man’s example to guide and sustain him. The father missing from Tripp’s life had gone off to war as well, in the navy in World War II, but the terrors were too much for him, he disgraced himself, and after the war ended he could not bring himself to return to his wife and young son. Tripp tells of how he learned as a platoon leader to become something of a father to the men in his care, how he came to understand the strange trajectory of his mentally unbalanced father’s life, and how the lessons he learned under fire helped him in the raising of his own sons.

Father, Soldier, Son: Memoir of a Platoon Leader In Vietnam

Leaders & Notable People

The best prose this side of Tim O'Brien or Tobias Wolff.--Military History Quarterly

Father, Soldier, Son: Memoir of a Platoon Leader in Vietnam

History

Americas

Steerforth Press

"Father, Soldier, Son will stand as one of the finest soldier memoirs of the Vietnam War . . . If all that has been written about the war in Vietnam, in fiction and nonfiction, has made it a familiar story to some, Tripp overcomes cliché by individualizing every well-known fact." -- The Boston Globe NATHANIEL TRIPP GREW UP fatherless in a house full of women and he arrived in Vietnam as a just-promoted second lieutenant in the summer of 1968 with no memory of a man’s example to guide and sustain him. The father missing from Tripp’s life had gone off to war as well, in the Navy in World War II, but the terrors were too much for him, he disgraced himself, and after the war ended he could not bring himself to return to his wife and young son. In "some of the best prose this side of Tim O’Brien or Tobias Wolff" (Military History Quarterly), Tripp tells of how he learned as a platoon leader to become something of a father to the men in his care, how he came to understand the strange trajectory of his own mentally unbalanced father’s life, and how the lessons he learned under fire helped him in the raising of his own sons. "Not since Michael Herr’s Dispatches has there been anything quite as vivid, gripping and soul-searing," raved the Washington Post, and the Chicago Tribune said "the description of combat in the jungles of Vietnam are authentic and terrifying, as good as any I have read in fact or fiction."

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Snow Comes to the Farm

Thunderstorm!

Thunderstorm

Snow Comes to the Farm

Barns and Outbuildings: And How to Build Them

Confluence: A River, The Environment, Politics, and the Fate of All Humanity

Confluence: A River, the Environment, Politics and the Fate of All Humanity

Father, Soldier, Son: Memoir of a Platoon Leader In Vietnam

Father, Soldier, Son: Memoir of a Platoon Leader in Vietnam

Father, Soldier, Son: Memoir of a Platoon Leader in Vietnam