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Walking the Flatlands:
The Rural Landscape of the Lower Sacramento Valley

Mike Madison

168 pages (8 x 7.5), with b&w images throughout
Trade paper, ISBN: 1-890771-84-8, $14.95

A Great Valley Book

Mike Madison delivers a detailed critique of the farmland around him, the land he walks daily. He is immersed in a sea of intricate and interwoven systems; he sees where the soil shifts from black to red, how the wind is battled, and the inevitability of change. He moves from thoughtfulness to heights of lyricism as the love for his home pours from his words. Madison continues the tradition of Wendell Berry and Thoreau, often matching both in rural intelligence and ecstasy.

Reviews:

“This book is not as innocent as it seems.”
— Kenneth E.F. Watt, professor emeritus of ecology studies at UC Davis

About the Author:

Mike Madison lives with his wife Diane in Davis, California, where they have created the Yolo Bulb, a thirty-three-acre flower farm, on the Lower Putah Creek.