The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow: The Mystical Nature Diary of Opal Whiteley

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Paperback. Pub Date: December 1994 Pages: 384 Publisher: Penguin Books Australia Long before environmental consciousness became popular. The a withyoung NAture writer named Opal Whitely captured America's HEART. Opal's Childhood diary. Published in 1902. Became an immediate bestseller. One of the most talked-about books ofits time. Wistful. funny. and wise. it was described by an admirer as the revelation of the ... life of a feminine Peter Pan of the Oregon wilderness-so innocent. so intimate. so haunting. that I should not know where in all literature to look for a counterpart. But the diary soon fell into disgrace. Condemning it as an adult-written hoax. skeptics stirred a scandal that drove the book into obscurity and shattered the frail spirit of its author . Discovering the diary by chance. bestselling author Benjamin Hoff set out to solve the longstanding mystery of i...