A Book of Country Things - Softcover
For those of us who yearn for simpler times, this is a book that reminds us how difficult the simpler things could be. Dictated from the memoirs of Walter Needham's grandfather, it gives brief and colorful descriptions of carpentry, farming, animal husbandry and domestic sciences, and is an accurate picture of life in New England in the 1800s.
Library Journal describes it as "wise in the self-sufficient ways of country in the last century." (Library Journal)
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- PublisherPenguin Books
- Publication date1981
- ISBN 10 0828904618
- ISBN 13 9780828904612
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. Illustrated by B/w illus. (illustrator). Reprint. VG+ in wraps 8vo viii+166pp How things were done in old-time Vermont. Size: 8vo - over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4" Tall. Book. Seller Inventory # 024405
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good +. Tenth Printing. For those of us who yearn for simpler times, this is a book that reminds us how difficult the simpler things could be. Dictated from the memoirs of Walter Needham's grandfather, it gives brief and colorful descriptions of carpentry, farming, animal husbandry and domestic sciences, and is an accurate picture of life in New England in the 1800s. Paperback. Date of purchase on frontispiece. There is no other writing in the book. viii, 166pp., index. Full refund if not satisfied. Seller Inventory # 032159
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