Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman, Miriam Horn
Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman, Miriam Horn
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Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman
Conservation Heroes of the American Heartland

Author: Miriam Horn

Narrator: Chris Andrew Ciulla

Unabridged: 11 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/01/2017

Synopsis

Many of the men and women doing today's most consequential environmental work-restoring America's grasslands, wildlife, soil, rivers, wetlands, and oceans-would not call themselves environmentalists: they would be too uneasy with the connotations of that word. What drives them is their deep love of the land-the iconic terrain where explorers and cowboys, pioneers and riverboat captains forged the American identity. They feel a moral responsibility to preserve this heritage and natural wealth. Unfolding as a journey down the Mississippi River, Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman tells the stories of five representatives of this stewardship movement: a Montana rancher, a Kansas farmer, a Mississippi riverman, a Louisiana shrimper, and a Gulf fisherman. In exploring the essential geographies they protect as well as their work and family histories, Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman challenges pervasive and powerful myths about both American and environmental values.

About Miriam Horn

Miriam Horn writes for U.S. News and World Report and is the author of Rebels in White Gloves: Coming of Age with Hilary's Class-Wellesley '69. She has also written for Vanity Fair and the New York Times. She lives in New York City with her husband.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kendra on February 07, 2017

I'm really glad I saw this author speak and that I read her book (Rancher Farmer Fisherman) at this time. She went to the red states, interviewed large-scale farmers (not small-scale organic farmers) and found that they were just as concerned with conservation as people in the blue states. She found......more

Goodreads review by Rick on March 09, 2018

(Aristocratic) Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman First off, let me say I have tremendous respect for all the “rancher, farmer, fisherman” business people profiled in this book, but I wouldn’t call any of them environmentalists or heroes of conservation. Sturdy pioneers who are doing their best to lessen the......more

Goodreads review by Martin on October 21, 2016

The glass is more than half-full in this well-written, evocative, deeply embedded, and admiring set of profiles: of a rancher in Montana, a wheat and soybean farmer in Kansas, a haulage company owner on the Mississippi, a shrimper advocate in Louisiana, and a fisherman in the Gulf of Mexico. Horn's......more

Goodreads review by Khalid on May 03, 2022

Take a journey alongside America's most important people in the businesses of ranching, farming, and fishing, as they show what it is like to continue what they do best and at the same time commit to the highest environmental standards! In "Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman", Miriam Horn thoroughly document......more

Goodreads review by Peter on November 14, 2024

A series of feel-good stories presented as a template for the future, when in reality most of it is just common sense management. Written by an author who I have a sense benefits from these stories in one way or another.......more

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