In the Country (Nature Classics Library) - Softcover

Allsop, Kenneth

 
9781908213044: In the Country (Nature Classics Library)

Synopsis

At the end of the 1960s, Kenneth Allsop, a famous television presenter and literary man-about-town, left London and settled amid the sunken lanes, ancient forests and chalk streams of west Dorset. He was at his very happiest here. He thought it the loveliest place on earth, and for three years he devoted a weekly newspaper column to his day-to-day life at the mill, brimming with humor and delight for the wildlife which shared his home. In the Country is not rustic or romantic. It is never unrealistic about agricultural modernisation and social change in the countryside. Yet, steeped with a deep sense of the past, Kenneth Allsop's writing speaks in defense of the natural world and stands firmly against the unchecked exploitation of the land. First published 1972 by Hamish Hamilton.

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About the Author

Kenneth Allsop won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for Adventure Lit Their Star. He was an accomplished journalist and in 1960 he joined the BBC's current affairs programme, Tonight, where he went on to become the nation's best-known television presenter and commentator. He was also a key figure in the burgeoning environmental movement in Britain.

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9780340186374: In the Country (Coronet Books)

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ISBN 10:  0340186372 ISBN 13:  9780340186374
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 1975
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