Best-selling, because of its recent, sadly increased, topicality, this title is the result of fifteen years’ careful research by a scholar and long-time rural priest: an unusual anthology, avoiding (or trying to avoid!) nostalgia, compiled with scholarship and remarkable tenderness.
Many more people are today turning to an appreciation of the values associated with traditional country living, now being eroded. Sadly, country people are becoming more of an endangered species than could have been imagined when his work began. Specially commissioned water colour paintings by talented artist Henry Croly enhance the text, with numerous evocative b/w illustrations. The glorious front bookjacket painting is also by Henry Croly.
** This title has made publishing history for SMH! In 2005, the hardback edition went out of print, and not wanting to delete it from our List, we decided to publish a softcover edition. Hardback (2nd impression) £17.95 ISBN 978-0-9534611-4-1 Limited stocks, so no Special Offer but post-free, as usual.