The Fields
A Historical, Fiction, American book. These 3 books (The Trees, The Fields, & The Town) are collectively...
'(A) tale of the slow battle and eventual victory over the Trees and that relentless forest which even today marches in and takes over an Ohio field that has been left untilled for a year or two...The story is told with a filling of poetry and the picturesque turn of language which characterized the speech of the frontier and can still be heard in the Ohio country districts.'--Louis Bromfield
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3.5 StarsSecond novel in "The Awakening Land" series, the first being "The Trees".Here we have the forest slowly but surely coming under the thumb of civilization and Sayward's family expanding until she bears nine children by the end (and I believe more to come in book three).There is excitement in the form of snake bite and one horrible... Continuing Richter's Awakening Land saga from where The Trees left off, this book marks a southeastern Ohio settlement's period of transition between forested, hunter-gatherer society and a small agricultural village. Fittingly, a much larger amount of the conflict in The Fields takes place between the Lucketts (now the Wheelers after... These 3 books (The Trees, The Fields, & The Town) are collectively known as The Awakening Land Series. They give an accurate view of what life was like for pioneers settling into N. America, specifically migrating from Pennsylvania to the wild unsettled area of what is now Ohio. They are narrated by the main character who begins the...
