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Field Work: What Land Does to People & What People Do to Land

Field Work: What Land Does to People & What People Do to Land

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Field Work is a book by Bella Bathurst that explores the lives of farmers in modern Britain, revealing the inextricable bonds between land and the people who farm it. It is a valuable portrait of one of the least understood and frequently most vilified of people.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 240 pages
Publication date: 07 April 2022
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd


A priceless portrait of one of the least understood and frequently most vilified of people: farmers.


It should really be read by all in this country who buys food - i.e. everyone.


Daily Mail


Highly researched and deeply thoughtful ... Bathurst peers under the bonnet of these lives and reveals things that rarely make it into print.


James Rebanks,


The Times


A fine achievement: describing the indescribable


Rosamund Young,


author of The Secret Life of Cows


We think we know what makes Britain's countryside: drystone walls, stiles, sheep on a distant hillside.


But for many of us, farmers themselves - the men and women who shape, maintain and care for that land - often remain a mystery: familiar but unpredictable, a secretive industry that's still visible from space.


In Field Work, Bella Bathurst journeys through Britain to talk to those on the far side of the fence.


From fruit farmers to fallen stock operators, from grassy uplands to polytunnels, she creates a portrait of modern Britain, exposing in the process the inextricable bonds that exist between land and the people who farm it.


As farmers find themselves torn between time-honoured methods and modern appetites, these raw, wise and funny accounts reveal an ancient way of life changing beyond recognition.

Weight: 194g
Dimension: 128 x 199 x 19 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781788162142
Edition number: Main

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