At the Fields Edge: Adrian Bell and the English Countryside Hawking Richard
At the Fields Edge: Adrian Bell and the English Countryside Hawking Richard Adrian Bell was farming and writing during a period when the English countryside underwent its most significant…
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At the Fields Edge: Adrian Bell and the English Countryside Hawking Richard
Adrian Bell was farming and writing during a period when the English countryside underwent its most significant transformation for hundreds of years. As these consequences dominate the English countryside today, Bell's views have relevance and importance to its future management. His work, spanning sixty years from 1920 to 1980, not only documents this agricultural revolution, but also warns of the effects it will have both for the environment and for society.
Though he has been largely neglected until now, Bell's voice is one we should listen to, not least because he is one of our greatest writers about farming and rural life. At the Field's Edge appraises Bell's prescient but still timely observations about the ecology, economy and culture of the British countryside, and introduces his beautifully crafted prose to a new generation of readers. If we pause at the field's edge with him