Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay

George Ewart Evans (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2018 | Main
Faber & Faber (Verlag)
978-0-571-34054-5 (ISBN)

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Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay is a vivid portrait of the rural past of Blaxhall, a remote Suffolk village, in the time before mechanization changed the entire nature of farming, the landscape and rural life for good. In the 1950s, George Ewart Evans sought out those who could recall the nineteenth-century customs, crafts, dialects, tools, smugglers' tales and rural beliefs which had endured from the time of Chaucer, and created this fascinating picture of a now vanished world.

Born in the mining town of Abercyon, South Wales, George Ewart Evans (1909-1988) was a pioneering oral historian. In 1948 he settled with his family in Blaxhall, Suffolk, and through conversing with his neighbours he developed an interest in their dialect and the aspects of rural life which they described. Many were agricultural labourers, born before the turn of the century, who had worked on farms before the arrival of mechanisation. With the assistance of a tape recorder he collected oral evidence of the dialect, rural customs, traditions and folklore throughout East Anglia, and this work, reinforced by documental research, provided the background for his renowned East Anglian books.

Erscheinungsdatum	11.05.2018
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 233 mm
Gewicht	215 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
Themenwelt	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-10	0-571-34054-7 / 0571340547
ISBN-13	978-0-571-34054-5 / 9780571340545
Zustand	Neuware