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I Bought a Mountain

  • Format
  • Bog, hardback
  • Engelsk
  • 288 sider

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WITH A FOREWORD BY PATRICK BARKHAMAnd an essay by Welsh hill farmer, Dafydd Morris-Jones'I first saw Dyffryn in a November gale... the old house was quivering under the thrusts of the wind, and the wild, remote setting had already captured my fancy, and I will hold it till I die.'So begins the remarkable story of a 21-year-old man who, with no experience in agriculture, visited a sheep farm on a near barren Welsh mountainside in 1931 and that same day bought all 2,400 acres along with its 3000 sheep for GBP5,000.Set amidst the rugged grandeur of Snowdonia, I Bought a Mountain follows the struggles and triumphs of this impulsive but hard-working man and his every-bit-as-tough wife, Esme, as they fight to build the farm into prosperity.Firbank's writing is guileless and immediate and ruthlessly honest. His paean to the traditional, Welsh hill-farming way of life, transports you to a disappearing world, one ruled by the age-old rhythms of work, weather, livestock and a love of the land, and offers precious insights into conservation and sustainability.

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Detaljer
  • SprogEngelsk
  • Sidetal288
  • Udgivelsesdato04-10-2022
  • ISBN139781780725253
  • Forlag Short Books Ltd
  • FormatHardback
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  • Vægt41 g
  • coffee cup img
    10 cm
    book img
    13,8 cm
    22,2 cm

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