"I imagine everyone has a center of gravity," says Ellen Bromfield Geld. "Something which binds one to the earth and gives sense and direction to what one does." For Ellen, this center is a writing table before a window that looks out upon groves of pecan trees and mahogany-colored cattle in seas of grass.
Ellen Bromfield Geld and her husband Carson have lived and farmed in Fazenda Pau D'Alho, Brazil, since 1961. In this memoir, Ellen weaves the threads of daily life on the farm into the broader pattern she has come to recognize in her quest for the knowledge of a country.