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Out of this world : a woman's life among the Amish

Author: Mary Swander
Publisher: Iowa : University of Iowa Press, 2008.
Edition/Format:  Print book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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When a life-threatening allergic illness demanded that she eat only organically grown food, writer and professor Mary Swander built a new life in a former one-room Iowa schoolhouse in the middle of  Read more...

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Genre/Form: Case studies
Named Person: Mary Swander; Mary Swander; Mary Swander
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Mary Swander
ISBN: 1587296373 9781587296376
OCLC Number: 1124295388
Description: [viii], 276 pages ; 20 cm
Responsibility: Mary Swander.

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Living in an Amish community, tied to the land and the seasons, Swander came to find balance and reawakened to a life of simplicity. - Chicago Tribune ""Out of This World flies on the strength of Read more...

 
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