Land of Plenty: A Journey Through the Fields and Foods of Modern Britain
Charlie Pye-Smith
(Author)
Description
Golden fields, ripening apples, lowing cattle: our idea of the landscape has been shaped by agriculture, as has the land itself. But in a fast-changing world, how does the great British countryside continue to provide the food we eat? Most people living in Britain today must go back several generations before they find an ancestor who worked on the land. How much do we really know about those who are supplying us with the most essential things in life: our daily bread and butter, meat and fish, fruit and vegetables? In Land of Plenty, Charlie Pye-Smith travels the length and breadth of these isles to explore the little-understood world of British agriculture. From ultramodern indoor dairy units producing millions of liters of milk a year to small, old-fashioned farms making cheese with 20 or 30 cows, and from landowners whose families have farmed the same fields for centuries to tenants who have just joined the industry, Pye-Smith investigates the timeless connection between land and people in the 21st century. Revealing the dairy industry in Somerset and Gloucestershire; beef in the Scottish Borders; sheep in North Yorkshire; pigs and poultry in East Anglia and Hampshire; vegetables in Norfolk; and fruit in Essex and the West Country, Land of Plenty is a colorful and rewarding travelogue that gets to the very heart of modern British life.
Product Details
Price
$14.95
$13.90
Publisher
Elliott & Thompson
Publish Date
August 24, 2018
Pages
288
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781783963805
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Charlie Pye-Smith is a writer and broadcaster who has contributed to the BBC, Financial Times, Daily Telegraph, and New Scientist, among others. He has written numerous books, including The Facts of Rural Life, Travels in Nepal, The Other Nile, Rebels and Outcasts, In Search of Wild India, Trees for Life, and The Subsidy Scandal, and he co-authored Working the Land and The Wealth of Communities.