Adrian Bell (1) (1901–1980)
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Séries
Obras por Adrian Bell
A Street in Suffolk 2 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1901-10-04
- Data de falecimento
- 1980
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- Local de nascimento
- London, England, UK
- Locais de residência
- Redisham, Suffolk, England, UK
Hundon, Suffolk, England, UK - Educação
- Uppingham School, Uppingham, Rutland, England, UK
- Ocupações
- journalist
farmer
crossword compiler - Relações
- Bell, Martin (son)
Bell, Anthea (daughter)
Membros
Críticas
Prémios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 24
- Membros
- 398
- Popularidade
- #60,946
- Avaliação
- 3.5
- Críticas
- 3
- ISBN
- 38
- Línguas
- 2
Anyway, this is the story (autobiographical) of a young man, Adrian Bell, who leaves London to apprentice on Mr. Colville's farm in Suffolk. Bell knows literally nothing about farming, crops, animals, implements, the organization of land preparation, planting and sowing. So, he takes us along on his learning journey. It's a most fascinating read. The time is just after World War I, and most farming is still done as in the "old days".
So we get an amazing look as to how things were done, the changes in the seasons, people's attachment to the land and so forth. By the end of his first year of apprenticeship, Bell begins to think about a small farm of his own. He buys that at the end of the book. I gather that there are two subsequent volumes in which Bell further details his adventures in becoming a farmer. This was a most interesting book, and I'm seriously thinking about importuning my local librarians to hunt me up the next volume of the trilogy.
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