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The Farm: The Story of One Family and the English Countryside
 
 
The Farm: The Story of One Family and the English Countryside (Paperback)
by Richard Benson (Author)
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Product details
  • Paperback: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd (19 Jan 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0141012943
  • ISBN-13: 978-0141012940
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.6 x 1.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  (12 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 65,427 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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  • Other Editions: Hardcover  |  Audio CD (Audiobook,CD) |  Audio Cassette (Audiobook) |  All Editions


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After two hundred years of farming in Yorkshire, the Benson family were forced to sell up. They found - like so many other farmers - that big business was wiping out a way of life they had known for generations. Farming had not come naturally to Richard Benson - he had fled to London long ago. But when he returned to help, he found himself caught up in memories of his childhood in the countryside. Recalling a lost world of pigs digging up the neighbour's lawn, love affairs among haystacks and men who wrestled bulls to prove a point, he tells of othe changing English landscape, of the people affected - and how his family adapt to a new life after being forced to give up their birthright. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

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When Richard Benson was growing up he felt like 'the village idiot with O'levels' - glowing school reports aren't much help when you're trying to help a sow give birth, or drive a power harrow in a straight line without getting half the hedgerow stuck in the tines. He left Yorkshire to work as a journalist in London, but returned when his dad called with the news that they were going to have to sell the family farm, and, in so doing, leave the home and livelihood that the Bensons had worked for generations. This is not only a moving personal account, but also one that reflects a profound change in rural life.

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