The Killing Of The Countryside

Graham Harvey

ISBN 10: 0099736616 / ISBN 13: 9780099736615

Published by Vintage 05/03/1998, 1998

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Bibliographic Details

Title: The Killing Of The Countryside

Publisher: Vintage 05/03/1998

Publication Date: 1998

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis:

An attack on modern British agricultural policy and practice. Harvey pleads for a return to natural cycles, an end to subsidies and the domination of agri-businesses, and for a safe, sustainable farming system. He hopes the link between the British people and the countryside may be re-established.

Review:

"A brave, much-needed book" (Guardian)

"I fully support this book's profound and Blake-like charge, which is laid not just against the mere farmers and the agricultural community, but against our whole society" (John Fowles The Sunday Times)

"A scathing attack... He explodes the myth of cheap food with a few simple statistics that even the dimmest politician should be able to grasp, and shows rural Britain devastated by the politics of unthinking subsidy" (New Statesman)

"A modern Grapes of Wrath... I have seldom read a more meticulous and devastating case for the prosecution" (The Times)

"Absolute dynamite... It's so invigorating to hear the case for truly sustainable, countryside-friendly agriculture mappd out so passionately" (BBC Wildlife)