The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry

The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry

In a time when our relationship to the natural world is ruled by the violence and greed of unbridled consumerism, Wendell Berry speaks out in these prescient essays, drawn from his 50-year campaign on…

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