Best Loved Tales of the Countryside: Collected Memories of a Bygone Era By Bria

BRAND NEW SHOP STOCK may be slight wear around edges from shelf life; see photos\n\nBest Loved Tales of the COuntryside: Collected Memories of a Bygone Eraby Brian P Martin\n\nHardback.\nThe best of the hugely successful 'Tales of the Countryside' series have now been brought together in one evocative and comprehensive volume.  Collected from a range of country folk, Best Loved Tales of the Countryside is an invitation to enter a world that is now all but lost to us - to toil behind the horse-drawn plough, to catch up on gossip at the village pub and to revel in the feud between gamekeeper and poacher.\nThese are the very best of the interviews and anecdotes provided by characters such as Ernest Sharp the master thatcher, Harry Grass, 'King of the Gamekeepers', and Joyce Damerill, District Nurse and midwife.  The twenty-five tales tell of the experiences of schoolmasters, railwaymen, vets and farmers to name but a few, and are richly illustrated with archive photographs and.