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An essential read

one that transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary

In only about 200 words

The Health of the Country bookshots flames But when Lucy arrives thisMany have written about the settling of early 19th century America, but until now no one has explored these settlers' self consciousness about what they were doing, what "settling" and cultivating the land itself meant. In The Health of the Country, Conevery Valencius shows that assessments of the "sickliness" or "health" of land pervade settlers' letters, journals, newspapers, and literature evidence of the common sense of another time, when land was