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The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow: The Mystical Nature Diary of Opal Whiteley

The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow: The Mystical Nature Diary of Opal Whiteley

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Biographies GeneralNature Writing

ISBN10: 0140237208
ISBN13: 9780140237207
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: Feb 1 1995
Pages: 384
Weight: 0.65
Height: 1.07 Width: 5.12 Depth: 7.84
Language: English
Long before environmental consciousness became popular, a young nature writer named Opal Whitely captured America's heart. Opal's childhood diary, published in 1902, became an immediate bestseller, one of the most talked-about books of its time. Wistful, funny, and wise, it was described by an admirer as the revelation of the ...life of a feminine Peter Pan of the Oregon wilderness--so innocent, so intimate, so haunting, that I should not know where in all literature to look for a counterpart.

But the diary soon fell into disgrace. Condemning it as an adult-written hoax, skeptics stirred a scandal that drove the book into obscurity and shattered the frail spirit of its author.

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