最艰难的时代
The worst hard time
Timothy Egan · 初版 2005 年
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“在大萧条最黑暗的岁月里，肆虐美国 High Plains 的沙尘暴空前绝后，而那些坚守下来的人们的故事却从未被完整讲述。普利策奖得主、《New York Times》记者兼作家 Timothy Egan 追踪了六个家庭及其社区见证该地区兴衰的历程——从草皮屋到新框架房屋，再到蜷缩在用湿床单封住窗户以徒劳阻挡沙尘的地下室。他记录了他们在遮天蔽日的黑色风暴中艰难求生的挣扎……
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……西部。表土层也远比东部贫瘠。多年前曾经有人做过旱地耕作的实验。结局惨淡：https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl 蒂莫西·伊根（Timothy Egan）的《最难熬的时光》（The Worst Hard Time）对这段历史有着极其精彩的叙述：https://books.google.com/books?id=np1RwDQfpjsC&pg=PP1#v=onep...
…west. Topsoils are also far poorer than further east. There was an experiment conducted some years ago on dryland farming. It ended poorly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl Timothy Egan's The Worst Hard Time is an excellent telling of this: https://books.google.com/books?id=np1RwDQfpjsC&pg=PP1#v=onep...
……种了更多的小麦。这加剧了供应过剩的问题。最终，随着小麦堆积在铁路货运站卖不出去，农民们任由开垦过的大草原荒芜撂荒，表土层被大风吹刮殆尽。来源：蒂莫西·伊根的《最难熬的时光》（The Worst Hard Time）
…grew more wheat. This compounded the supply problem. Eventually, as wheat piled up at railroad depots unable to be sold, farmers left the plowed prairie fallow and the topsoil blew away. Source: The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
从另一个完全不同的角度来说，我最近读了不少充斥着大量“骗局与套路”的书：- 蒂莫西·伊根的《最难熬的时光》（The Worst Hard Time），讲述了大萧条时期的黑风暴事件（Dust Bowl）。许多人被铁路推销术和其他各种“房地产”骗局忽悠去定居大平原高地。- 《The Indifferent…
In a very different vein, I have read a number of books recently that feature a surprising amount of "scam and schemes": - The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan, about the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression. A lot of people were scammed into settling the high plains by railroad salesmanship and other "real estate" scams. - The Indifferent…