Downstream from Here

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>After plum assignments in Washington London Parisand Buenos Aires </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>TIME</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> magazine correspondent Charles Eisendrath gave up the glamor. It wasn't that he'd gotten it wrong-</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>the career the stories-it was the realization that getting it right in terrorism zones could lead to something worse than just wrong for his family.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Eisendrath took a leave of absence (just a delaying tactic) packed up the household and set off to find out what else he might do. His new base would be a 146-acre farm in Northern Michigan. Journalists he says spend their time looking out windows but the farm encouraged introspection. No more than introspection-the farm led him deep into agriculture engineering fishing hunting and supporting journalism by raising $60 million to endow fellowships at the University of Michigan.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>In this memoir of a big life in a small place Eisendrath's bright eye and curious mind flashes on maple syruping replanting a forest after tornadoes an octopus in the basement the personalities of brook trout inventing the perfect grill a plane crash in the jungle and his many friends family and neighbors. Ken Auletta of </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>The New Yorker</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> calls it An amazing beautifully written memoir. Actor Jeff Daniels says Prepare to be inspired.</span></p>