Results for: books tagged ‘Farming’
Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay: George Ewart Evans
A classic picture of the rural past in a remote Suffolk village, revealed in the conversations of old people who recall harvest customs, home crafts, poetic usages in dialect, old ... More
Small-Scale Poultry Keeping: Ray Feltwell
Goat Husbandry: David MacKenzie
This is a book every goat-keeper should have. The latest edition has been extensively revised by Ruth Goodwin, a well-known expert, to reflect the changes in the goat-keeping world since ... More
The Crooked Scythe: George Ewart Evans
George Ewart Evans, who wrote the classic Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay, was one of the pioneers of oral history. This anthology is drawn from his writings about ... More
Small-Scale Sheep Keeping: Jeremy Hunt
Small-scale sheep keeping is one of the major growth areas of livestock breeding. The success of rare breeds and their proven commercial qualities has encouraged intense interest in minority sheep ... More
The Diary of One Who Vanished: Seamus Heaney
On Raftery's Hill: Marina Carr
In Marina Carr's epic tragedy of rural life, three generations of the Rafterys live together in the midlands of Ireland. It's a closely knit farming community where hatred and rumours ... More
The York Realist: Peter Gill
A beautifully gentle love story set in the 1960s outside York, between a farm labourer who acts in a local version of the Mystery Plays and the Director, up from ... More
Dark Earth: David Harrower
When Valerie and Euan's car breaks down in remote countryside near the Antonine Wall they have a problem. With their mobiles left at home and an evening out arranged in ... More
Moortown Diary: Ted Hughes
Originally published in 1979, Moortown Diary is the updated version of Ted Hughes's acclaimed Devon farming sequence, written over a period of several years during which he was spending almost ... More
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