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Goat Song: A Seasonal Life, a Short History of Herding, and the Art of Making Cheese
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Author
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Brad Kessler.
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Scribner
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hardcover
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8.75
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ISBN
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9781416560999
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239/2009
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Daedalus Item Code
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21333
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Novelist Brad Kessler—author of Lick Creek and Birds in Fall, which won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize—longed to leave New York City for a life on the land where he could grow his own food. He and his wife, photographer Dona Ann McAdams, finally found an 18th-century farmhouse with 75 acres of land on a dead-end road in Vermont. When she one day brought home fresh goat milk from a neighbor, Kessler discovered he had a hidden talent for making cheese, and became a goat herder. His philosophical treatise on the farming life ranges over millennia of human history, agriculture, and what it's like to live intimately with animals that feed you. "Beautifully written in Brad Kessler's poetic reverent voice, Goat Song shows us that when we take care of the land, animals, and each other to feed ourselves, we're participating in an ancient rite that imbues our lives with meaning and nourishes our bodies and our souls."—Alice Waters
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