Yesterday's Countryside: Country Life as it Really Was

by ValeriePorter (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  2006

  $3.55

  Country life in every aspect has changed dramatically within living memory. This lovely book invites the reader to explore what has happened to our farms, villages, lanes and hedgerows in more detail than ever before. The author reveals the every day lives of the country community - both the hardships and the pleasures - to give a complete picture of our grandparents and their forefathers as they worked on and with the land. The fragile future of the countryside rests in our hands - this fascinating book reminds us to take care of it.

• Used

  Paperback
  2002

  $3.36

  Country life, in every aspect, has changed more rapidly and more dramatically within living memory than at any other time in our history. Here Valerie Porter looks back at a vanished rural past, to a time many of us may yearn for, but with realism - for what was it really like to live in the countryside without so many of the mod cons we now take for granted? The book also contains interviews with those who can remember a way of life in rural Britain before mechanization changed the countryside forever. Porter also looks at the present, and in defiance of rose-tinted nostalgia sees how in many respects country life is thriving, albeit in a different form from its traditional image.