In the first collection of published writings of Thomas Affleck (1812--1868); Lake Douglas re-establishes the reputation of a tireless agricultural reformer; entrepreneur; and horticulturist. Afflecks wide range of interests -- animal husbandry; agriculture; scientific farming; ornamental horticulture; insects; and hydrology; among others -- should afford him a celebrated status in several disciplines; yet until now his immense contributions remained largely unheralded. Steward of the Land remedies this oversight with a broad; annotated selection of Afflecks works; rightfully placing him alongside his better-known contemporaries Andrew Jackson Downing and Frederick Law Olmsted.After immigrating to the United States from Scotland in 1832; Affleck witnessed the burgeoning American expansion and its major advances in agriculture and technology. He worked as a journalist for the influential Western Farmer and Gardener; covering Ohio; Kentucky; and the Mississippi River Valley. Affleck moved to Mississippi in 1842 to manage his new wifes failing plantation; there; he created one of the first commercial nurseries of the South while writing prolifically on numerous agrarian topics for regional periodicals and newspapers. From 1845 to 1865 he edited Afflecks Southern Rural Almanac and Plantation and Garden Calendar; published in New Orleans. Following a postwar move to Brenham; Texas; he published letters and essays about rebuilding that states livestock herds and rejuvenating its agricultural labor forces.Steward of the Land includes excerpts from dozens of Afflecks articles on subjects ranging from bee keeping to gardening to orchard tending. This valuable single-volume resource reveals Afflecks astonishing breadth of horticultural knowledge and entrepreneurial sagacity; and his role in educating mid-nineteenth-century readers about agricultural products and practices; plant usage; and environmental stewardship. Never before collected or contextualized; Afflecks writings provide a firsthand account of the advancement of agricultural techniques and practices that created a new environmental awareness in America.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Im so glad to see this but there are some annoyancesBy B. BarrettIm a sax player and I have all the current Real Books in print for C; Bb; and Eb instruments. I was considering scanning my copies to put on my iPad so I wouldnt have to carry three to six heavy books to a gig (depending on if I was playing both Bb and Eb instruments) and I was dreading going through the process of scanning then figuring out how to set it up so I could easily find the song I needed on the iPad. Then I find these! Hallelujah! Ever so rapidly I ordered all three volumes for Bb and Eb instruments for Kindle; had them load on my iPad and started looking through them. Yes! Yes! Yes! I can use this and the discounted Kindle version price makes it just that much sweeter. This saves me days of time; so its worth it!Now for a couple of annoyances; one small one and one big one.The small one: Its clear Hal Leonard just scanned the pages and put the file in Kindle format. The music doesnt fill the entire screen; but on an ipad its no biggie; just expand it a bit. The scans are clear enough and my eyes still good enough that I probably wont even have to do that; however it would be nice if the pages actually filled the screen.The BIG one: The book is FULL of copyright notices; all on their own individual pages; sometimes more than one. OK; fine. The law requires them to be put in; but cant it be in an appendix in the beginning or end of the book?. If that wasnt bad enough; in some cases there are charts that span more than one page and the copyright notice page is in between the two pages of a chart necessitating an additional page turn to get to the second page of the chart! This is INFURIATING on a gig!!! The print version isnt laid out this way; why do it on the Kindle version? Good thing I have a bluetooth page turner with foot pedals so for me its easy but someone who doesnt have or cant use a foot pedal page turner like Kindle users are just out of luck. Its extremely annoying. This isnt a book someones going to leisurely read in an arm chair or as a reference book; musicians are going to depend on this to earn their livings as a performance tool. Hal Leonard should know better and it needs to be fixed!Even with the annoyances; I still award it four out of five stars and I highly recommend this for gigging players. Its clear whoever was responsible for putting this together for Hal Leonard wasnt a gigging musician. Hence only 4 out of 5 stars.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. This was a waste of my moneyBy Alan R.Im viewing this on a windows 8.1 13.5" screen. When put on single page view the title show up on a separate page. in two page view it is too small to read while playing an instrument. The book is incredibly slow to load. This was a waste of my money.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Lots of good tunes in this bookBy P. DeleyLots of good tunes in this book; perhaps more than in Vol 1. Vol 1 has more jazz tunes whereas Vol II seems to have more standards from the Great American Songbook. Vol III has even more of them. its best to look at the index of tunes and decide which book to get first. Of course everyone has Vol. I so that is the natural place to start.
