A Countryman's Year - Softcover
Join the dusty bustle of a threshing gang with steam engine and elevator, while the sheaves fly lightly into the maw of the drum. Come down to the marshes and hear the dry swish of scythes cutting the thatching reeds. Watch the hedge trimmer at work and meet the eel catcher with his wriggling harvest. See the falconer practise skills which were old even when Edward the Confessor was on the throne and dance at a horkey to celebrate the harvest home. This text celebrates the natural world and the old timers who lived in harmony with it. Share in their secret: in the way that the countryside inspired the human spirit where our modern lifestyle fails.
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John Humphreys has written the popular 'Country Gun' column in Shooting Times for many years, and twenty books on fieldsports and country ways, including Poachers' Tales for David & Charles. He trains gun dogs, runs a lowlands shoot, chases grouse in Yorkshire and geese in Scotland, and fishes for trout and carp on his own little reserve in Cambridgeshire. Hunter's Fen, which won a Laurent-Perrier conservation award in 1991. The paintings and drawings of John Paley have been widely exhibited both in the UK and abroad, and he has illustrated a number of books. He lives in Norfolk.
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- PublisherDavid & Charles Ltd
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0715315269
- ISBN 13 9780715315262
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages160
- IllustratorJohn Paley
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A COUNTRYMAN'S YEAR. By John Humphreys. Paperback edition.
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Book Description John Paley (illustrator). (Paperback, 2003). (1996) 2004 paperback reprint. Landscape 4to (265 x 239). Pp160. Colour plates & b/w illustrations by John Paley. Slight use but very good. Signed by the author. This is a collection of accounts of rural life and work up to the disappearance of the horse from British farms. The material is aranged season by season. Chapters include; Spring - sable parliament, the keeper's tale, the hare in the furrow, the old school, the vicarage garden, Frog Hall Marsh; summer - the fenland flyer, mayfly time, Romany morning, mailed warrior, fall of a tyrant, singing masons, Tarka's return; Autumn - shock-horse boy, muir cock, harvest home, Coney Bill, country bike, Blind Bob's, mellow fruitfulness; Winter - hedging bets, wild goose chase, the scythe, harmonious blacksmith, the poacher's tale, falcon gentle, bats in the belfry. . Seller Inventory # 59584
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