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real sense of the joys and tribulations of farming life.It is illustrated with a treasury of old photographs, some from unpublished collections, allowing a special glimpse into the worlds of real people for whom farming was a way of life.
- ISBN10 0715328786
- ISBN13 9780715328781
- Publish Date 27 June 2008 (first published 27 October 2006)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint David & Charles
- Edition 2nd Revised edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 256
- Language English