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    The Harvester
    The Harvester
    The Harvester
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    The Harvester

    Written by Gene Stratton-Porter

    Narrated by Mary Starkey

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    The Harvester is the story of David Langston, a solitary young man who harvests and sells medicinal herbs which he collects from his forested lands. He believes he needs nothing more than his work, his simple cabin and his trusty dog for companionship...that is until a hauntingly beautiful and demure vision visits him, and suddenly, he knows that it is the woman of his dreams.  At that moment he realizes how truly lonely he has been, and that it is possible that a woman could share his  home among the wild plants and herbs he collects...but first he must find this woman in his vision, and win her.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBooks in Motion
    Release dateJan 15, 1990
    ISBN9781596070172
    Author

    Gene Stratton-Porter

    Gene Stratton-Porter was born and raised in Wabash County, Indiana. She was a self-trained American author, nature photographer, and naturalist.

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    • 5/5
      Wow. This one starts as a romance, instead of starting as a nature story and growing a romance later - the nature parts are nicely intertwined with the romance. It's truly wonderful - for all the Cinderella aspects. And since the reader has been with him since he fell in love, we can see it from his side with no Cinderella to it at all...Love it. Lots of twists and turns - seems like he keeps bringing men to the house for her to choose from. But a proper happy ending, despite the misunderstandings right near the end. Best Stratton-Porter book yet.
    • 5/5
      I last read this book probably at least 35 years ago, and was surprised at how much I still love it. I read it tonight on Google Books because my Grandma's copy of this is packed away somewhere in my parent's attic. This story, of a very Thoreau-ish young man who lives in the country on 600 acres devoted to medicinal plants and herbs, manages to strike a melancholic note without meaning to. Even a hundred years ago he was on a mission to preserve the disappearing flora from the Indiana country side that had been used in traditional and western medicine. I couldn't help but feel how much more we've probably lost in the hundred years since this book was written.The prose is over-wrought by today's standards, but the story of the plants and the noble man behind their cultivation, and his lovely pure-hearted romance of the delicate and sickly young woman that he comes to love still managed to tug at my heart.It's just a beautiful story and you can't help wishing that there were more men today like David Langston, the Harvester.
    • 4/5
      Gene Stratton-Porter was fond of writing romantic novels with settings that emphasized the wonders and beauty of nature. The Harvester is one of her most successful works. Like Freckles and A Girl of the Limberlost it is set near the fictional Indiana town of Onabasha in 1910. David Langston lives alone in a small cabin on the land where he has established America's only farm devoted to growing wild medicinal plants in their ideal natural conditions. Raised by his mother after his father's death, Langston has spent his life in an effort to be honest, manly, and "clean" (Stratton-Porter's code word for sexual abstinence). Each year he leaves it to his dog to decide whether he should stay on his land, or go to Onabasha to look for a wife, and every year the dog indicates the land is best--until this year. The Harvester is unwilling to change his lifestyle until the night he experiences a wonderful vision of his perfect woman, decides he can't live without her, and begins his search. When he does find her, he also finds that love is a harder thing than he ever anticipated, and that he will need all his strength, courage, patience, and skill to win and to keep his mate. Set in idyllic surroundings, this is one of Stratton-Porter's best-written novels, and the Harvester himself is one of her most memorable characters.