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Article: Fighting for the fields. (Poland)
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- E Magazine
- Article date:
- August 1, 1995
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Poland is usually thought of as a kind of environmental house of horrors. Belching smokestacks, coal-darkened buildings and mammoth industrial complexes are the dismal and grimy images that leap at us from reports about Eastern Europe. Nevertheless, wholesale despoliation is not a pervasive condition. In spite of the gray renderings, much of Poland is still surprisingly lush. Unfortunately, few get to see past the cheerless Orwellian visage to the other Poland -- the green Poland.
Anyone who has ventured beyond the urban tourist corridors knows of the rare quality of the Polish countryside. In her recent book Exit Into History, Eva Hoffman describes the rickety ...