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Title	:	Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
Author	:	Janisse Ray
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary 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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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.

Ray expertly alternates chapters between home values/Family History and our beloved Long-Leaf Pine lands.

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

YALL. This is one of my favorite books, bar none. It is a memoir, both of Janisse Rays childhood and of a crucial ecosystem on the brink of extinction. The landscape that I was born to, that owns my body: the uplands and lowlands of southern Georgia, she begins. Nothing is more beautiful, nothing more mysterious, nothing more breathtaking, nothing more surreal than longleaf pine forests. These forests used to cover at least 85 million acres across the South. Today, fewer than two million acres

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 is a beautifully written account of growing up in Southern Georgia by an environmentalist who weaves a history of the long term effects of human behavior on the ecology of the area. Chapters alternate between family history and natural history. The family is poor, but their story is (mostly) affectionate and gentle and the family is portrayed in a dignified manner in spite of their difficult circumstances. The author laments the ruin of the forests and disappearance of many species due to

I did not like this book. It had a spanking scene and I can't overcome a spanking scene. Tooooo much for me to handle.There were, however, two incidences of AMAZING WONDERFULNESS in this book.A. The chapter in which she describes her father's depression, institutionalization, and love for his wife. Leafing through the pages, I can't find the passage. I am sad to not be able to re-experience it today.B. The two chapters near the very end, entitled "The Kindest Cut" and "Leaving." She writes of