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- ID
- cx32
- Title
- "Give Me The Country."
- Genre
- Essay
- Page Count
- 4
- Word Count
- 2800
- Publisher
- Illustrated
- Publication Year
- 1951
- Document Types
- Full-text Online
- Autobiographical
- Nature Writing
- Eads, Additions to
- Topics
- Rural Living
Responding to a previous article praising urban life over rural life, Bates makes the case for the joys of the countryside.
In the process, he recalls his boyhood and surveys the history of rural changes brought by war and the automobile.
With numerous photographs.
In Illustrated (March 17, 1951, pp. 20-23, attached).
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