Bøger af Bob Machin

Can you get here from there? Bob Machin reverses the age-old Vermont catchphrase in this Story of building a homestead from scratch in the Vermont hills. With a pair of pony mules, a chainsaw and the optimism of innocents, he and his wife Jo put together Gingerbrook Farm.Along the way we visit some extraordinary Vermont characters, delve into the secret life of maple trees, learn how to herd a pig, see how you might put together all of your buildings with just a chain saw and a hammer, paraphrase Hamlet's soliloquy to your favorite wild apple tree, make shwitzle and shrub from your own honey and cider vinegar, promote the use of humanure, wrestle with fire, earth and water and give anything for a hot shower.

These stories take you from Canada to Brazil with all the stops in between and into the lives of unusual characters and through the trepidations of unforeseen circumstance.None of the names herein have been changed to protect the guilty and none of these stories is fiction. They find Slimshanks in various places around the globe caught in situations that range from the miraculous and terrifying to the absurd. Many take place in Latin America among indigenous and campesino cultures. Others ricochet between a wayward dog, a suicidal truck and the algebra between sex and lunch.