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Country matters : the pleasures and tribulations of moving from a big city to an old country farmhouse / Michael Korda ; illustrations by the author.
- Title
- Country matters : the pleasures and tribulations of moving from a big city to an old country farmhouse / Michael Korda ; illustrations by the author.
- Author
- Korda, Michael, 1933-
- Publication
- New York : HarperCollins, 2001.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | F129.P72 K67 2001 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- viii, 303 p. : ill., map; 25 cm.
- Summary
- A humorous memoir of big city angst and big life decisions chronicles one couple's journey from a Manhattan townhouse to an eighteenth-century Dutchess County farmhouse.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Chapter 1 "He Don't Know Shit About Septics" 1 -- Chapter 2 Asleep at the Switch 17 -- Chapter 3 "Whack It All Back!" 23 -- Chapter 4 A Man's Home Is His Castle 30 -- Chapter 5 A Barn of One's Own 47 -- Chapter 6 "Them's Nice Pigs, Them Pigs" 55 -- Chapter 7 Lunch at Cady's 79 -- Chapter 8 Just Plain Folks 93 -- Chapter 9 Good Fences Make Good Neighbors 111 -- Chapter 10 Bats in the Belfry 119 -- Chapter 11 Where Every Prospect Pleases, and Only Man Is Vile 131 -- Chapter 12 One Left-handed Clevis, Please 143 -- Chapter 13 Nature Green of Tooth and Claw 152 -- Chapter 14 Manure 164 -- Chapter 15 The Wrong Deer 172 -- Chapter 16 The White Stuff 182 -- Chapter 17 Viva Zapata! 194 -- Chapter 18 The Acropolis 202 -- Chapter 19 "Do You Know Egg?" 209 -- Chapter 20 A Nice Cup of Tea 217 -- Chapter 21 "Make That a Dozen Barbarian Kremes" 236 -- Chapter 22 The Sporting Instinct 247 -- Chapter 23 Free Kittens! 259 -- Chapter 24 "Change and Decay ..." 271 -- Chapter 25 No Place Like Home 286 -- The Six "Golden Rules" of Owning an Old House 305.
- ISBN
- 0060197722 (acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2001016670
- OCLC
- 45873565
- SCSB-12229819
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library