by ValeriePorter (Author)
This book offers a retrospective look at farming life within living memory and beyond, celebrating a quintessential rural existence.It is warm and nostalgic but also honest about the hardships of life and the great changes the countryside has seen in the last 100 or so years.It is peppered with personal stories and recollections to give readers a real sense of the joys and tribulations of farming life.It is illustrated with a treasury of old photographs, some from unpublished collections, allowing a special glimpse into the worlds of real people for whom farming was a way of life.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Edition: 2Rev Ed
Publisher: David & Charles
Published: 27 Jun 2008
ISBN 10: 0715328786
ISBN 13: 9780715328781