This book shows the making of those poems, and several hitherto unpublished ones, forged in the hard craft of Icelandic saga, American Imagism, and in the voices of family and community Johnston took as his material.
This is an exhaustive study of the county from its infancy to the middle of the 19th century, with chapters on the early settlements and towns, churches, schools, businesses and industries, and sketches of the county's participation in the ...
George Johnston, a close friend of Barry Crump and known as 'Henry' throughout Crump's books, continues the tradition of the good, keen man in this work of fiction, inspired by actual events.