title: Third Person Rural: Further Essays of a Sometime Farmer
author:  Noel Perrin 
description: According to New York Times Book review, "Perrin makes a fine defense of country living, not as a retreat from the world but as a place to use talents to battle it out."
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  ‘Perrin makes afine defense of country living, 
  not as a retreat from the world but as a place 
  to use one's talents to battle it out. ’ 
  -New York Times Book Review 
  SECOND PERSON 
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  More Essays of a Sometime Farmer 
  by Noel Perrin 
  illustrated by F. Allyn Massey •, 
  Noel Perrin has done it again. The man 
  whose FIRST PERSON RURAL was called 
  ‘witty, fluent, and stylish’ (Kirkus) and ‘con- 
  sistently entertaining’ {Time) has produced 
  a second volume of delightful essays on the 
  practice and philosophy of country life — 
  essays his many New Yorker, Country Journal, 
  and Vermont Life readers have come to relish. 
  SECOND PERSON RURAL is perhaps more 
  philosophical than its first cousin. Perrin does 
  provide a healthy ration of practical advice 
  for the ‘sometime’ farmer-you will, le