Field Work (eBook)

What Land Does to People & What People Do to Land

Bathurst Bella Bathurst (Autor)

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2021
ProFile (Verlag)
978-1-78283-531-8 (ISBN)

Infos

'A priceless portrait of one of the least understood and frequently most vilified of people: farmers. It should really be read by all in this country who buys food - i.e. everyone.' Daily Mail'Highly researched and deeply thoughtful ... Bathurst peers under the bonnet of these lives and reveals things that rarely make it into print.' James Rebanks, The Times'A fine achievement: describing the indescribable' Rosamund Young, author of The Secret Life of CowsWe think we know what makes Britain's countryside: drystone walls, stiles, sheep on a distant hillside. But for many of us, farmers themselves - the men and women who shape, maintain and care for that land - often remain a mystery: familiar but unpredictable, a secretive industry that's still visible from space. In Field Work, Bella Bathurst journeys through Britain to talk to those on the far side of the fence. From fruit farmers to fallen stock operators, from grassy uplands to polytunnels, she creates a portrait of modern Britain, exposing in the process the inextricable bonds that exist between land and the people who farm it. As farmers find themselves torn between time-honoured methods and modern appetites, these raw, wise and funny accounts reveal an ancient way of life changing beyond recognition.

Rezensionen

A fine achievement: describing the indescribable

A long overdue account of the true nature of farming - written from the ground up. Bella Bathurst really gets under the skin of what it means to farm the land in the 21st century, at a time of unprecedented change.

A genuine attempt to get under the fingernails of the people who work in land-based industries and understand why they carry on doing what they do, usually for little financial reward, often in great discomfort and in the face of adversity. And it is a distinguished work of journalism by someone who asks the questions that the reader wants asked [and] sifts the answers perceptively ... This thought-provoking book portrays, with uncomfortable accuracy, life on the green bits beyond the 30-mile limits of Britain's towns

Exactly the book I've been longing to read about farming. A proper behind-the-scenes look, fascinating, insightful, compassionate.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.4.2021
• Zusatzinfo: colour plate section
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
• Schlagworte: Brexit • British Countryside • climate change • countryside • Dieter Helm Green and Prosperous Land • Emma Gray My Farming Life Tales from a shepherdess on a remote Northumberland farm • English Pastoral • factory farming • farming • Helen McDonald • Herefordshire • H is for Hawk • James Rebanks • John Lewis-Stempel • Lucy Jones Losing Eden • Oliver Rackham the History of the Countryside • organic • Rebecca Schiller Earthed • Rewilding • rural life • Shepherd • Smallholding • Stephen Moss The Accidental Countryside • The Shepherd’s Life • veganism • Who Owns England? Guy Shrubsole • Yorkshire Shepherdess
• ISBN-10: 1-78283-531-8 / 1782835318
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78283-531-8 / 9781782835318