Following the example of Gilbert White’s Selborne, Savory records the everyday life of Aldington, a Worcestershire village where he farmed the manor. Here are the farm bailiff, the hop foreman, the head carter, an old-fashioned shepherd and the gardener, along with village politics, machinery, asparagus growing and the sharp practice of country market days.
A rich portrait of English rural life before mechanisation, for readers who love the countryside and its vanished ways. Download the free EPUB.