About a Village

by PeterOwenJones (Foreword), E.J.McCabe (Foreword)

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  2011

  $4.68

  What is it that makes the ideal English village? Firle in East Sussex is
  
  both unique and universal. First of all there is a pub and in no particular
  
  order come a school, a shop, a cricket pitch, a church, a stream, a
  
  blacksmith, allotments, flint walls, house martins. Above all, the village
  
  seems to contain that rarest of ingredients, delight.
  
  Firle sits literally at the end of the road. It is the last place you can
  
  reach by car before coming in summer to a wandering line of chalk and in
  
  winter to something a little muddier. Beyond the road are the wild
  
  landscapes of the South Downs, sleeping and keeping the bones of those who
  
  were first to arrive at the end of the last ice age. It is the connection
  
  between village, people and these hills which makes it such a special place.
  
  In a delightful photo essay, acclaimed photographer Eamonn J. McCabe
  
  captures some of what makes this English village come alive. Big open skies,
  
  small boys holding a colourful caterpillar, cabbages and tea cosies,
  
  bonfires, bikers, dogs and wellies. This is a book for all those who cherish
  
  English country life.