GRASS WIDOW AND HER COW - Hardcover

The Grass Widow and Her Cow. An Enchanting Account of Country Life in Wartime Britain

Cloth. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. The Grass Widow and Her Cow. Price clipped to D/J. Aided by her handyman and her housekeeper, egged on by her children, Barbara was sfitly initiated in the mysteries of farming, and soon intimately acquainted with brown leghorns, Rhode Island reds and, dare we say, sex-linked pullets. In this journal of the farm's first year, Barbara records her delights and disappointments: the difficulty of transporting pigs in the back of a 1933 Ford Eight; how Juklia, the farm's glamour-girl Jesey cow, sparked rumour of an invasion when she escaped in the black-out and was finally captured by the Home Guard; how the friends who arrived expecting high tea found themselves harvesting hay, and how Barbara dealt with the ducks that refused to leave the kitchen and the geese with a taste for herbaceous borders. This book is a unique insight into the dramatic changes in one woman's life during wartime, written with great humour, optimism and plentt of practical advice. Illustrated. 174 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.). Artikel-Nr. 100263

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