Giveway: Horsekeeping: One Woman’s Tale of Barn and Country Life by Roxanne Bok
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Thanks to Erin McNichols of Meryl L. Moss Media Relations, Inc., I am giving away one copy of Horsekeeping.
Book Description:
Please note, proceeds from this book will be donated to various local and national horse rescuing charities.
Why would successful urbanites, used to clean, controlled and orderly lives, take on the task of restoring a near collapsing empty barn littered with haphazard and decayed fencing, pastures deep in standing water, and try to turn it into a thriving horse farm?
Initially motivated only by a city dweller’s fantasy and obscure memories of childhood visits to the country, Roxanne Bok oversees the reconstruction of a thirty-seven stall barn and painstakingly discovers something about both large animals and running a small business.
Follow an equine novice as she leads her equally naïve family in an eighteenmonth long adventure of breathing life back into a once great horse farm in rural New England. A thoughtfully detailed memoir, Roxanne Bok learns it all the hard way, from the agony of repeatedly being tossed off a beloved horse, to the thrill of winning a blue ribbon.
For those who love horses, the dream of country life or simply the sight of an otherwise urban family on great rural adventure, here is a tale that plumbs the full range of human emotions but ends with a deepened love of the land and the extraordinary equine creatures that inhabit it.
HORSEKEEPING details the joys, heartbreaks and self discovery that transformed her young family into becoming stewards of the land. Bok is delightfully direct as she describes watching the farm come back to life as uninvited wildlife, accumulated mess and years of neglect are forcibly evicted. Anyone who has lived through home restoration will appreciate what it takes to restore an entire farm. Bok’s keen eye for the lush landscape and humor for the less-than-tidy aspects of being a gentlewoman farmer, invite an intimate look into a world so few of us get to enter.
About Roxanne Bok:
Roxanne Bok is a writer and mother committed to the preservation of land and wildlife in the global community as well as her own backyard. She lives in New York City and Salisbury, Connecticut with her husband, two children, a dog and a cat.
Please consider purchasing this book to help horse rescue. You can buy it at Amazon.com, here.
Because this is a cause near and dear to me, if you purchase the book by December 30, you will receive 10 extra entries to win a copy to giveaway to a friend. You must send proof of purchase to me at teddyr66 at yahoo dot com. Please be sure to black out any credit card or personal information.
To Enter:
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That’s 46 or more possible entries! This giveaway is open to the U.S. and Canada
The winner’s mailing address: No P.O. Boxes
Only one entry per household/IP address
Winners will be subject to the one copy per household rule, which means that if you win the same title in two or more contests, you will receive only one copy of the book.
This giveaway will end on Friday, December 30th, 11:59 P.M. E.S.T. The winners will be notified by email. Winners must respond within TWO days or will be disqualified.
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