Lost Country Life: How English country folk lived, worked, threshed, thatched, rolled fleece, milled corn, brewed mead...
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Book Description
This beautiful and heartfelt encyclopedia of rural life in the middle ages gets its special charm because the author, as a little girl, knew shepherds and laborers who lived in a way hardly changed through the centuries. She shares that land, now lost forever, where man was the measure of all things.
Using as a framework a 16th-century calendar of advice for farmers, she takes us month by month... More
Book Information
Publisher | Pantheon Books |
Binding | Hardcover (9 editions) |
Reading Level | Uncategorized |
# of Pages | 374 |
ISBN-10 | 0394510364 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0394510361 |
Publication Date | /1979 |
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