Yesterday's Farm: A Taste of Rural Life from the Past - Softcover

Porter, Valerie

9780715328781: Yesterday's Farm: A Taste of Rural Life from the Past

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0715328786 ISBN 13: 9780715328781

Publisher: David & Charles, 2008

This book offers a retrospective look at farming life within living memory and beyond, celebrating a quintessential rural existence.It is warm and nostalgic but also honest about the hardships of life and the great changes the countryside has seen in the last 100 or so years.It is peppered with personal stories and recollections to give readers a real sense of the joys and tribulations of farming life.It is illustrated with a treasury of old photographs, some from unpublished collections, allowing a special glimpse into the worlds of real people for whom farming was a way of life.

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Review:

Warm and nostalgic --Suffolk and Norfolk Life - Oct 06

Highly Recommended for the armchair agriculturalist --The Good Book Guide - Oct 06

It includes a wonderful selection of old photos and many personal stories and recollections. --Western Daily Press - Dec 06

Review from Who Do You Think You Are - Lavishly illustrated. This is a superb reference book for both the family and local historian wanting to piece together how their ancestry lived. --BBC Who Do You Think You Are

About the Author:

Valerie Porter is an experienced author and editor, and her previous books have covered a broad range of countryside topics - 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.

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