"Profiles the adventures of legendary apple grower Jonathan Champman in the early nineteenth-century Midwest. This touching story of the benevolent naturalist who roamed the Ohio valley in the early 1800's, planting apple orchards, making friends, and spreading goodwill along his way. Known to early settlers as a gentle soul with a reverence for all life, Johnny never missed a chance to save an abandoned animal or to savor a delicious apple pie."
"Describes the life of the eccentric man who helped nineteenth-century American settlers, planting apples every place he stopped."@en
"A biography of John Chapman, who distributed appleseeds and trees across the Midwest."
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