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Reviewed by Anne Bell
What would it mean to reinhabit ...
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March 22, 1997
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 1997 Alternatives, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Reviewed by Anne Bell
What would it mean to reinhabit the land, to become, as Stephanie Mills playfully suggests, "a specimen of Homo sapiens reinhabitens?" Reflecting on her own experiences and on the efforts of others who have tried and are trying to learn to "live-in-place," Mills offers an uncommonly lyrical account of the possibilities inherent in ecological restoration. This book, she explains, is about the beauty, stability and hospitality of healthy communities, about groups and individuals doing service, and about an "epochal change in our relationship with the land."
Mills begins with tales of her adopted home on the Leelanau Peninsula in Michigan. Her ...
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