The Inland Island

About this book

The Inland Island is a powerful evocative and lyrical description of natures changes wonders and tragedies recorded in the twelve months of the year by a marvelously perceptive and original observer Pulitzer Prize-winning author Josephine Johnson. This is a nature book but a deceptively simple one: for like Thoreau Miss Johnson goes far beyond a mere description of nature. Her inland island is both her own farm - an enclosure of wilderness surrounded by an ever more savage and intrusive society - and the burning core of her convictions about mans cruelty the demands of individual conscience at a time of war and conflict her own determination to resist an increasingly brutalized and mechanical civilization.