Online Catalogue last updated 15th of September 2008
A retrospective look at farming life within and beyond living memory, celebrating a quintessential rural existence. Warm and nostalgic, this book is also honest about the hardships of life and the great changes the countryside has seen in the last 100 or so years. Peppered with personal stories and recollections, and illustrated with a treasury of old photographs, some from unpublished collections.
Valerie Porter's previous books have covered a broad range of countryside topics, and 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.
Code No. 012028, 256 pages, ISBN 9780715321843, $50.00