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Mighty Giants, signed by Jimmy Carter
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Item Number: MG-carter
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Limited Edition!
Hardcover - Mighty Giants: An American Chestnut Anthology
Personally signed by President Jimmy Carter.
Contents of "Mighty Giants: An American Chestnut Anthology:
Chestnut
scenes from artists such as Winslow Homer, Seneca Ernie Smith, Andrew
Wyeth, Charles Burchfield, and a generous selection of seldom-seen
photographs of American chestnut throughout its history.
“Chestnuts in my Life” by Jimmy Carter.
Poems by Wendell Berry and Robert Frost.
Chestnut
folklore and anecdotes, including reminiscences from southern
Appalachia to New England, along with historical newspaper chronicles
of the tree before, during, and after the blight.
Chestnut reflections by plant geneticist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Norman Borlaug, father of the “Green Revolution.”
Colorful
accounts of railroads and locomotives that logged mammoth chestnut
trees in Appalachia, by Les Line, longtime editor of Audubon magazine.
Chestnut
recollections and inspirations from Bill Owens, Dolly Parton’s uncle, a
Tennessee mountain man, musician, and champion of the tree.
Excerpts
from best-selling author Barbara Kingsolver’s Prodigal Summer, about a
curmudgeonly chestnut breeder and his cantankerous rural Virginia
neighbor.
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