| - Book Title: Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay
- Author: George Ewart Evans
- ISBN: MW00191817165
- Publisher: Country Book Club
- Year Published: 1958
- Our Normal Price: £27.50 GBP ($0.00 USD)
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- Description: The Country Book Club 1958, first of this edition following the first Faber and Faber edition of 1956: green cloth hardcover: no dust jacket: 262 pages including index: Black and white photographic illustrations: Black and white line drawings by Thomas Bewick: Black and white maps. Synopsis: The author, George Ewart Evans records pre- twentith century rural life in the East Suffolk village of Blaxhall, compiling his material from books, manuscripts and memories, with the emphasis on oral tradition. Topics included are :- shepherds and sheep shearing; the revolution in farming ; harvest procedures and customs; old farm implements; domestic life including breadmaking, bacon and ham curing, cheesemaking, clothes washing; social occasions including fares and auctions: influences of the sea on the area , including smuggling: the social fabric of the community including school, church, bellringing, the Village Inn: legends and superstitions, field names, and structure of the language. The text is supported by black and white photographs of local characters , rural activities, plans and maps Condition:No dust jacket: ownership inscription: preliminary pages aand end papers foxed: overall clean and good
- Condition: See Above
- Dustcover: No
- Binding: Hardback
- Type: Used Books
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