Cobbett rode through southern England in the 1820s looking at crops, soils and labourers’ cottages, and reported what he saw with unmatched vividness and unconcealed rage: enclosure, rural poverty, the “Wen” of London swallowing the country, and the paper money he blamed for all of it.
The best book ever written about the English countryside, and the angriest. Download the free EPUB.