The Farm
The Story of One Family and the English Countryside
2006
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Abridged edition
Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) (Verlag)
9780752876696 (ISBN)
Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) (Verlag)
9780752876696 (ISBN)
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A moving portrait of one family on the cusp of rural change. Benson writes with emotion, but without sentimentality.
After two hundred years of farming in Yorkshire, the Benson family were forced to sell up. They found - like so many other farmers - that big business was wiping out a way of life they had known for generations. Farming had not come naturally to Richard Benson - he had fled to London long ago. But when he returned to help, he found himself caught up in memories of his childhood in the countryside. Recalling a lost world of pigs digging up the neighbour's lawn, love affairs among haystacks and men who wrestled bulls to prove a point, he tells of othe changing English landscape, of the people affected - and how his family adapt to a new life after being forced to give up their birthright.
After two hundred years of farming in Yorkshire, the Benson family were forced to sell up. They found - like so many other farmers - that big business was wiping out a way of life they had known for generations. Farming had not come naturally to Richard Benson - he had fled to London long ago. But when he returned to help, he found himself caught up in memories of his childhood in the countryside. Recalling a lost world of pigs digging up the neighbour's lawn, love affairs among haystacks and men who wrestled bulls to prove a point, he tells of othe changing English landscape, of the people affected - and how his family adapt to a new life after being forced to give up their birthright.
Richard Benson was born on a small farm near Doncasater in 1966, After a childhood spent crashing tractors and being outwitted by various farmyard animals, he left home to become a journalist, and has since written for various newspapers and magazines. THE FARM is his first book and became an overnight success when it was shortlisted by Richard & Judy's Book Club. Richard Benson was born on a small farm near Doncaster in 1966, After a childhood spent crashing tractors and being outwitted by various farmyard animals, he left home to become a journalist, and has since written for various newspapers and magazines. This is his first book.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 3.8.2006 |
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| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 125 x 140 mm |
| Gewicht | 196 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei | |
| ISBN-13 | 9780752876696 / 9780752876696 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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