The Endless Furrow

A. G. Street
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780571254958
Date Published
15.10.2009
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Summary

The seemingly endless furrows ploughed by the author himself on his farm in Wiltshire provide the inspiration for this book, first published in 1934. The Endless Furrow chronicles the traditional life of the rural community while offering the fictional depiction of a ‘townsman’s’ ambition to farm his own land. The simple joy he feels when he achieves this is conveyed in the pleasure he takes from surveying his fields.

A. G.Street

A. G. Street was born Arthur G. Street in 1892 and grew up on a farm near Wilton, Wiltshire. He was a broadcaster and writer and wrote 25 books with farming life at their centre. Perhaps his most famous book, Farmer’s Glory, describes his time in Canada before he returned to Wiltshire. Another book, Strawberry Roan, was turned into a…

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