Item #39245 Church of the Earth: The Ecology of a Creative Community. Robert S. DE ROPP.
Church of the Earth: The Ecology of a Creative Community.

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Church of the Earth: The Ecology of a Creative Community.

NY: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1974. First edition. 8vo. Red cloth. 280pp. Photo-illustrated.

Part journal of the author's experiences in the small mountain commune he founded in 1967 near Santa Rosa, Northern California, and part spiritual autobiography (De Ropp was a biochemist who had previously researched mental illness and drugs; his first book, 'Drugs and the Mind' [1957], examined the behavioural effects of psychoactive drugs). A brief appendix features practical suggestions about building a rural community.

Near Fine in Very Good dw. (internal damp stain to spine panel).

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