Farmer''s Life - With a Memoir of the Farmer''s Sister

Klappentext The unusual and descriptive biography of a rural nineteenth-century English farmer, first published in 1922. Zusammenfassung George Sturt (1863–1927) was a British wheelwright and writer who generally used the pen-name George Bourne. First published in 1922, this volume contains Sturt's biography of his uncle, farmer John Smith, in which Sturt sensitively describes the domestic life and farming methods of a vanished way of life. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Welsh cattle; 2. Dog-traction; 3. The country flavour; 4. Tramps; 5. 'Smith'; 6. Surface water; 7. Obstinacy; 8. Oddities; 9. Farnborough recalled; 10. Two harvester; 11. The bachelors; 12. At the farm; 13. Chiefly thatching; 14. Retiring; 15. Retirement; 16. Mr. Smith's chatter; 17. More chatter; 18. Ebbing power; 19. A rally. 1: Mr. Smith's manner; 20. A rally. 2: Conversation; 21. Collapse; 22. Souvenirs; Ann Smith; Appendix.

Product details

• Authors: George Sturt, Sturt George
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.11.2010
• EAN: 9781108025256
• ISBN: 978-1-108-02525-6
• No. of pages: 218
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, 19th Century
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Social and cultural history