Fieldwork
What Land Does to People and What People Do to Land
£16.99
For many of us, Britain is countryside – drystone walls, stiles, sheep on a distant hillside. But farmers themselves often remain a mystery: familiar but unpredictable, a secretive industry still visible from space. Who are these people who shape our countryside and put food on our tables?
And what does it take to pull a life out of earth?From fruit farmers to fallen stock operators, from grassy uplands to polytunnels, Bella Bathurst journeys through Britain to talk to those on the far side of the fence.
As farmers find themselves torn between time-honoured methods and modern appetites, these shocking, raw, wise and funny accounts will open out a way of life now changing beyond recognition.
publisher:
Profile
pages:
240
Publication Date:
2021 April
format:
Hardback 216 x 135mm
ISBN:
9781788162135
illustrations:
Colour plates