This Hill, This Valley

by Hal Borland

In one of the true classics of American nature writing, Borland recounts the cycle of a year on his hill-country farm in northwestern Connecticut. This Hill, This Valley is one of the true classics of American nature writing. First published in 1957, it recounts the cycle of a year on Borland's hill-country farm in northwestern Connecticut, where he and his wife, Barbara, settled after a serious illness nearly ended his life. 'We came here, ' he relates, 'to live, to write, to see and feel and understand a hillside, a riverbank, a woodland, and a valley pasture.'