From Gene Logsdon, author of The Man Who Created Paradise

“A charming book that can be enjoyed on three levels. First, Geld gives an intimate portrayal of the people of Brazil she has come to know and what it is like living among them. Second, she describes from first-hand experience the settling of the frontier in Brazil in the twentieth-century, which was much like the settling of the U.S. a century earlier. Third, and best of all, this is the story of an amazing American couple who with courage and wit but little money, start a homestead adventure in a foreign land and, against all odds, turn it into a successful farm. Having often championed the work of Geld’s father, Louis Bromfield, in print, I almost feel guilty having to say that for me Geld is the better writer of the two. And psssst, a better farmer too.”

Gene Logsdon