- Paperback: 218 pages
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press (18 Nov 2010)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1108025250
- ISBN-13: 978-1108025256
- Product Dimensions: 1.4 x 2.2 x 0.1 cm
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George Sturt (1863–1927) was a British wheelwright and writer who usually wrote under the pen-name George Bourne. A native of Surrey, he inherited his father's workshop in the rural village of Bourne, near Farnborough, in 1894. He began to record the daily lives and recollections of his rural family and acquaintances, which he published towards the end of his life. First published in 1922, this volume contains Sturt's unique biography of his uncle, farmer John Smith. Sturt bases his account of his uncle's life around Smith's anecdotes and recollections as recounted him during the last years of Smith's life. This unusual structure provides a lively, intimate account of the life of a farmer in rural England during the nineteenth century. Through Smith's recollections and Sturt's own memories, Sturt sensitively describes the domestic life, work and farming methods of a now vanished way of life.
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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.
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A Gentle Story of a Vanished Time
20 Jun 2011
Format:Paperback
It's easy to forget just how much the world changed in the 20th century. Sturt's A Farmer's Life captures a world in the midst of change. Ending just before the hurlyburly of World War I, Sturt's gentle reminiscent of his uncle, James Smith, depict a gentle, though extensively detailed, reminiscence of a now extinct rural agrarian life. It's not challenging, and it won't change your life, but it provided me with an escape from my fast paced work life every evening as I read it in 15 minutes intervals in the night before sleep.
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