Yesterday's Farm: A Taste of Rural Life from the Past - Softcover

Porter, Valerie

 
9780715328781: Yesterday's Farm: A Taste of Rural Life from the Past

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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real sense of the joys and tribulations of farming life.It is illustrated with a treasury of old photographs, some from unpublished collections, allowing a special glimpse into the worlds of real people for whom farming was a way of life.

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Valerie Porter is an experienced author and editor, and her previous books have covered a broad range of countryside topics - several have been on the subject of rare livestock breeds. She spent her childhood in the wilds of deepest rural Wiltshire and most of her adult life up rough farm tracks in West Sussex, where she still lives.

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ISBN 10:  0715321846 ISBN 13:  9780715321843
Verlag: David & Charles, 2006
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