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A Farmer's Year H. Rider Haggard

A Farmer's Year By H. Rider Haggard

Summary

Best-selling novelist Rider Haggard (1856-1925) was also a recognised expert on agricultural practice, and published this account of his life and work as a farmer in Norfolk in 1899. It gives a lyrical but unsentimental view of both the pleasure and the problems of late Victorian rural life.

A Farmer's Year Summary

A Farmer's Year: Being his Commonplace Book for 1898 by H. Rider Haggard

H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925) is best known as the successful writer of adventure stories with exotic backgrounds such as King Solomon's Mines and She. However, he also served on a number of royal commissions, and in managing his wife's Norfolk estate became a recognised expert on agricultural matters. A Farmer's Year is his diary for 1898, recounting the work of the farm, month by month, together with observations on rural life and the state of agriculture in general, which was suffering due to the population drift to the towns and competition from cheaper imported food. His descriptions of country life are beautifully written, with many illustrations: he clearly loves the land and is concerned for its future, but does not ignore the hardship faced by many farmers and their workers. The book is a fascinating mixture of anecdote and natural history, as well as depicting late Victorian agricultural methods.

Table of Contents

Author's note; 1. Bedingham, Ditchingham and the farms; 2. January; 3. February; 4. March; 5. April; 6. May; 7. June; 8. July; 9. August; 10. September; 11. October; 12. November; 13. December; Appendix; Index.

Additional information

NLS9781108025362
9781108025362
1108025366
A Farmer's Year: Being his Commonplace Book for 1898 by H. Rider Haggard
New
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2011-01-13
586
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