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Title	:	Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
Author	:	Janisse Ray
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 224 pages
Published	:	July 28th 2000 by Milkweed Editions (first published 1999)
Categories	:	Autobiography. Memoir. Nonfiction. Environment. Nature. Biography. American. Southern

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Janisse Ray grew up in a junkyard along U.S. Highway 1, hidden from Florida-bound vacationers by the hedge at the edge of the road and by hulks of old cars and stacks of blown-out tires. Ecology of a Cracker Childhood tells how a childhood spent in rural isolation and steeped in religious fundamentalism grew into a passion to save the almost vanished longleaf pine ecosystem that once covered the South. In language at once colloquial, elegiac, and informative, Ray redeems two Souths. "Suffused with the same history-haunted sense of loss that imprints so much of the South and its literature. What sets Ecology of a Cracker Childhood apart is the ambitious and arresting mission implied in its title. . . . Heartfelt and refreshing." - The New York Times Book Review.

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Original Title:	Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
ISBN:	1571312471 (ISBN13: 9781571312471)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	American Book Award (2000)

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"When we say the South will rise again we can mean that we will allow the cutover forests to return to their former grandeur and pine plantations to grow wild." If only that's what people meant.I envy her knowledge of flora, fauna and mechanicsyou get specificity in the forests and junkyards. The way she describes the destruction, it's easy to feel like preserving the South as a place is a lost cause. Consequently, her ability to conjure a (disappearing) landscape made it more upsetting than

Perhaps this book received five stars from me out of a certain bias. I did, after all, attend Janisse Ray's reading at SUNY Oneonta in March 2010. I was entranced by a passion I had never witnessed before. Her Southern drawl, her soft voice that spoke so boldly was with me while I read through her book. I could hear every word come out of her mouth and I knew that every thing she said she meant. Maybe had I not experienced Ray's unrelenting passion, I'd afford this text one less star. I spoke

I recommend this book for those interested in biology, ecology, the scrutiny of small environments and the interrelatedness of their living things. The main geographic area discussed is the longleaf pine woods of South Georgia but the savannas and bogs get some time as well. "Longleaf pine is the tree that grows in the upland flatwoods of the coastal plains. Miles and miles of longleaf and wiregrass, the ground cover that coevolved with the pine, once covered the left hip of North America from

This book is a sad but necessary reminder of the integral role that longleaf pines play in our region and how devastating cutting them down for timber and turpentine has been. I especially appreciated the sections on their ecological relationship with wiregrass, pitcher plants, red-cockaded woodpeckers, and gopher turtles.Since some readers may not be familiar with the area, I would recommend that future editions include photographs. They would help clarify, for example, the differences among

Has good intentions and deep conviction about saving the habitat. I love her chapter entitled "Clearcut" - "You'd better be pretty sure that the cut is absolutely necessary and be at peace with it, so you can explain it to God, for it's fairly certain he's going to question your motives, want to know if your children are hungry and your oldest boy needs asthma medicine..." It corresponds with my thoughts when I see people cut down a forest to satisfy a short term need (such as a new car).

Oblivious, it went about its business without you, but it was there when you needed some gift, a bit of beauty: it would be waiting for you. All you had to do was notice. --Janisse Ray on nature, Ecology of a Cracker ChildhoodIn Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, Janisse Ray not only makes you notice nature, but reconnects you with nature--not just as your surroundings, but as a deeply embedded part of who you are. As her autobiography, Ecology includes many charming and often uniquely profound

From the first page through the last, this book held me tight, at times squeezing my heart. The author speaks in a simple, yet poetic language, the language of the South. I will never again look at nature the same.