"In May 1972, twenty-year-old Liese Greensfelder arrived in a small Norwegian town prepared for her first summer farmhand job, only to learn the startling news that she'd need to singlehandedly watch over the centuries-old farm while its owner recovered from a stroke. Confronted with dangers and obstacles for which she was utterly unprepared, she tells a story of remarkable resilience and records the fascinating but rapidly vanishing traditions of the community that took her in"--
"In May 1972, twenty-year-old Liese Greensfelder arrived in a small Norwegian town prepared for her first summer farmhand job, only to learn the startling news that she'd need to singlehandedly watch over the centuries-old farm while its owner recovered from a stroke. Confronted with dangers and obstacles for which she was utterly unprepared, she tells a story of remarkable resilience and records the fascinating but rapidly vanishing traditions of the community that took her in"--Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Liese Greensfelder is a freelance writer focusing on medicine, biology, and agriculture. She has worked as a farm advisor for the University of California Cooperative Extension and as a science writer for UC San Francisco and UC Berkeley, and she initiated an agricultural development project in the Guatemalan highlands. In 1975, an epistolary account of her first six months on Johannes’s farm became a bestselling book in Norway. She lives in rural Nevada County, California, on the western slope of the Sierra Nevada mountains.
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Contents Map of Hovland Area Norwegian Friends and Neighbors 1. The Best-Laid Plans 2. A Tangle of Vines 3. Awe and Longing 4. Johannes 5. Hovland 6. Wine and Stew 7. Firstborn Son 8. The Hunt 9. Museum in the Living Room, Sheep Thighs in the Pantry 10. Into the Wild 11. Drunken Driving 12. Exodus 13. Attack of the Mad Heifer 14. Worlds Apart 15. A Swim in Skårsvatnet 16. Of Cows and Manure 17. Alv’s Revolution 18. Driving Begonia 19. A Temple for the Gods 20. “You Know I Did” 21. Pickled Grass 22. Håseter and Hulders 23. Johannes Baits the Hook 24. Stuck on a Ledge 25. Pork Chops for Johannes 26. Little Bo-Peep 27. Blood and Wool 28. Freedom! 29. Metamorphosis 30. Misery 31. Magnar’s Ram 32. A Social Whirl 33. Suddenly a Celebrity 34. The Shepherdess’s Lamb 35. Mørketida 36. An Unbidden Guest 37. Homecoming 38. Skiing to Valhalla 39. Lamb Spring 40. Onward Acknowledgments Glossary
Contents Map of Hovland Area Norwegian Friends and Neighbors 1. The Best-Laid Plans 2. A Tangle of Vines 3. Awe and Longing 4. Johannes 5. Hovland 6. Wine and Stew 7. Firstborn Son 8. The Hunt 9. Museum in the Living Room, Sheep Thighs in the Pantry 10. Into the Wild 11. Drunken Driving 12. Exodus 13. Attack of the Mad Heifer 14. Worlds Apart 15. A Swim in Skårsvatnet 16. Of Cows and Manure 17. Alv’s Revolution 18. Driving Begonia 19. A Temple for the Gods 20. “You Know I Did” 21. Pickled Grass 22. Håseter and Hulders 23. Johannes Baits the Hook 24. Stuck on a Ledge 25. Pork Chops for Johannes 26. Little Bo-Peep 27. Blood and Wool 28. Freedom! 29. Metamorphosis 30. Misery 31. Magnar’s Ram 32. A Social Whirl 33. Suddenly a Celebrity 34. The Shepherdess’s Lamb 35. Mørketida 36. An Unbidden Guest 37. Homecoming 38. Skiing to Valhalla 39. Lamb Spring 40. Onward Acknowledgments Glossary
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