The Story of a Norfolk Farm

by Henry Williamson

Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket in very good condition. Illustrated by Christopher Wormell. Jacket is scuffed and scored. Edges are creased and nicked. Board spine ends are a touch bumped. Page block and page edges are tanned. Boards are clean, binding is sound and pages are clear. LW

Genres: British Literature, Agriculture, Nature

1 pages, Hardcover

First published January 23, 1941

About the author

Henry William Williamson was an English soldier, naturalist, farmer and ruralist writer known for his natural history and social history novels, as well as for his fascist sympathies. He won the Hawthornden Prize for literature in 1928 with his book Tarka the Otter.

Henry Williamson is best known for a tetralogy of four novels which consists of The Beautiful Years (1921), Dandelion Days (1922), The Dream of Fair Women (1924) and The Pathway (1928). These novels are collectively known as The Flax of Dream and they follow the life of Willie Maddison from boyhood to adulthood in a rapidly changing world.

Reviews

[Tom Johnson · Rating 4 out of 5]

well written by a very earnest fellow - today it would be hard to be Henry Williamson - hard to be anything but cynical - had my own ag years laboring on my uncle's farm during the summers of 1961 through 1964 (plus Christmas vacations - winter brought a whole new set of chores, lots of hours in the woods = buzzsaw) - unending work and very low pay but like Henry I found the experience was well worth the effort - farming in Minnesota and Wisconsin twenty-some years after the events in Henry's book was very different from farming in Norfolk but at its most basic it was much was the same (way more productive) - more later - Orville, my mom's brother - mom was the oldest of the six children, Orville the second, they were 3rd generation Norwegian Americans, from a long line of dairy farmers - the farms were run down, a ton of work needed to bring back their productivity - the farm in MN was overrun with rats - 40 head Holsteins plus young stock, 40 hogs (MN), 300 chickens (WI) - Henry writing of his travails never got tedious always kept my interest - read a second impression edition from March, 1941, 403 pages - wish I could have afforded an early edition with the dust jacket as I loved the book.

[Lanette · Rating 3 out of 5]

My reaction to this book was similar to my reaction to "Wild" by Cheryl Strayed... it drives me crazy when people decide to do things they are unqualified/unprepared for and then find themselves in uncomfortable positions. But I liked this one better, since it took place in England and involved farming.

[Dave Palmer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Enjoyable read, plenty of points still valid all these years later. Effortless read too, wasn't marred with archaic verbage