This Hill, This Valley, Hal Borland
This Hill, This Valley, Hal Borland
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This Hill, This Valley
A Memoir

Author: Hal Borland

Narrator: Danny Campbell

Unabridged: 10 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/13/2024


Synopsis

A memoir of a year immersed in nature on a New England farm, by the national bestselling author of The Dog Who Came to Stay.

After a nearly fatal bout of appendicitis, Hal Borland decided to leave the city behind and move with his wife to a farmhouse in rural Connecticut. Their new home on one hundred acres inspired Borland to return to nature. In this masterpiece of American nature writing, he describes such wonders as the peace of a sky full of stars, the breathless beauty of blossoming plants, the way rain swishes as it hits a river, and the invigorating renewal brought by the changing seasons. The delights of nature as Borland observes them seem boundless, and his sense of awe is contagious.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Paige on December 02, 2019

Oh, this book was beautiful. I read it slowly, which usually means I was bored and made myself come back to it - but not in this case. It was just so gorgeous I genuinely wanted to savor it. It was also set up for a slow read as it's a year in the life of his valley home. I started it in the Spring......more

Goodreads review by Ruth on November 05, 2017

The “gentle reads” description definitely applies to this charmer, written back in the fifties by the naturalist Hal Borland. As the dust jacket says, this book is “one of the true classics of American nature writing” that “recounts the cycle of a year on Borland’s hill-country farm in north-western......more

Goodreads review by Elisabeth on December 27, 2022

Spending as much time as I do reading books about other parts of the country or world, it was lovely to discover a book that speaks so beautifully and perceptively of the place I've always felt most at home: New England farm country. In this informal journal of a year of life on a Connecticut farm,......more

Goodreads review by Sonia With an I on October 17, 2024

I picked up this book because it was mentioned in Gladys Taber's Stillmeadow Sampler. Hal and his wife Barbara were friends of Gladys and she kept this book on her coffee table to read during the seaons. I love this because I read Gladys' books seasonally as well. So I rushed over to Hoopla and ther......more

Goodreads review by Fran on July 16, 2021

A reread of one of my favorite books.......more