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Men and the Fields - Adrian Bell
Men and the Fields - Adrian Bell
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Introduced by Ronald Blythe
'I sat against an oak trunk, staring at oak trunks, tracing their boughs upward to the hurrying white clouds beyond, and wondered why one worried about anything. But then I ceased even to wonder, but dozed awake, like a tree'
Adrian Bell's travels through East Anglia and lowland Britain reflect a world on the brink of change. Published in 1939, on the eve of the Second World War, his down-to-earth descriptions of the countryside were shaped by is own life working the land. Whether it be hedgerow flowers, a livestock auction, traditional farmyard, village forge, wheelwright's shop, the arrival of the tractor in the harvest field, the work of the ploughman, shepherd or woodman, Men and the Fields captures the character of rural life before modern agriculture altered the landscape and changed forever the way we eat and live.
This new edition restores the original colour lithographs and black and white line drawings by John Nash that appeared in the first edition.
Reviews:
'Men and the Fields is part of the history as well as the literature of the England of that time... It is a work of practical mysticism and a celebration of things as they were and would never be again' - Martin Bell
Publishers: Little Toller Books
ISBN: 9780956254528
Pages: 160
Weight: 296g
Dimensions: 216 x 157 x 14 mm
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