- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Gollancz; New edition edition (1 April 1987)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0575040769
- ISBN-13: 978-0575040762
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.6 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 808,181 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The great "Farmtouns" of Scotland - in othe words, big commercial farms which were highly modern by the standards of the time - dominated agriculture in that country from the middle of the nineteenth century until about the time of the second world war.
The author of this book, journalist David Kerr Cameron, was born and spent his early years between the wars on one of the farmtouns in Aberdeenshire, during the last part of the era when they, and similar great farms in England, dominated the countryside.
However, this book is not an autobiographical account of the author's own experiences, it is an amazingly thorough and detailed account of the history of the great farms and every aspect of the lives of the people who lived and worked on them.
Besides the great advances in agricultural practice of the period, the farmtouns were also noted for their music and ballads, and this book includes the words of a large number of country songs.
This people who lived in the farmtounds described by this book had a hard life characterised by much work and not by much wealth, but they had an important role in the development of modern Scottish society and David Kerr Cameron's book depicts it brilliantly.
The author of this book, journalist David Kerr Cameron, was born and spent his early years between the wars on one of the farmtouns in Aberdeenshire, during the last part of the era when they, and similar great farms in England, dominated the countryside.
However, this book is not an autobiographical account of the author's own experiences, it is an amazingly thorough and detailed account of the history of the great farms and every aspect of the lives of the people who lived and worked on them.
Besides the great advances in agricultural practice of the period, the farmtouns were also noted for their music and ballads, and this book includes the words of a large number of country songs.
This people who lived in the farmtounds described by this book had a hard life characterised by much work and not by much wealth, but they had an important role in the development of modern Scottish society and David Kerr Cameron's book depicts it brilliantly.
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