Wellspring: A Story From The Deep Country

by Barbara Dean

Book by Dean, Barbara

219 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1979

Reviews

[Jennifer · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you enjoy nature writing and Californian lady hippies-of-yore, you will definitely enjoy this memoir of a few years in the author's life on a 600+ acre ranch/commune. While she shares the land with about a dozen other adults, and there are stories of the ranch's efforts to have summer camps and a school for troubled kids from San Francisco, the book is more about the author's personal struggle with a rugged ranch existence, her growing love of nature, and heartbreak. It's marketed on the cover as "A Woman's Walden." I suppose that's accurate, but it's also not.

[Rachel Brown · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing. Brilliantly written, extremely inspiring