Product Description: In this first book by Ronald Stevens, first published in 1953, the celebrated falconer writes with evocative charm of his life at his country estate in post-war Britain.

Product Description: This 1980 anthology contains of some of the finest and most significant writing on English country life from Cobbett through Jefferies, Sturt, hardy, Hudson and Flora Thompson to Thomas Hennell and Adrian Bell. A good many of the selections are taken from books originally published by Cambridge University Press...read more

Product Description: The countryside is filled with beauty and wonder in these imaginative, idiosyncratic writings, but also cruelty and hardship. They describe the texture of an owl's feather, the colours of autumn and the sound of rooks' wings sweeping across the sky...read more

Product Description: 'The Lost Village' describes a journey in search of the true English village, through dales and suburbs, moors and estates. It captures the voices of poachers and gamekeepers, farmers and hunters, nurses and postmen, teachers and craftsmen, to demonstrate that the past is never so simple as we imagine...read more

Product Description: Richard Jefferies (1848-87) has long been recognised as an interpreter of English country life and a natural observer with few if any equals. He was an idealist, who believed that human beings could free themselves from outworn ideas and achieve a greatly enlarged spiritual and physical capacity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Country Bouquet is a charming and unique yearly companion with a chapter for every month. Originally published just after the Second World War, it is descriptive, autobiographical and philosophical all in one as the author deftly evokes the essence of what each month means to her. In January, she wonders whether spartan, make-do habits learned in the war years may give way to an orgy of spending, but is cheered by how the last few days of this harsh month bring blackbird music at dawn - "those first few notes like an orchestra tuning up before playing begins". She calls May "white lilac month: all the languorous warmth of summer breathes through those creamy cones..".; in July, she speculates on matters of bring up children and opportunities for women and how the war has changed things.

Reveals the real Thrush Green behind the author's fictional English village, the settling for her popular novels, in a combination of memoirs, sketches of characters real and imagined, and scenes from her books

Product Description: A portrait of 22 of England's ancestral homes, ranging from the majesty of Chatsworth in Derbyshire to the sleepy charm of Sandford Orcas in Dorset. As well as providing a history of each of the houses, this book looks at the struggles to maintain them and the problems of restoration...read more

Product Description: H.E. Bates is a revered writer on the countryside; author of a wealth of books reflecting English life including, The Darling Buds of May. Beautifully illustrated with wood engravings by the renowned wildlife artist C.F. Tunnicliffe...read more

A collection of essays from a British author tells of her life as a writer, a countrywoman, and a lover of the arts and of flowers, and of old lore and legends. (Biography).

Product Description: The painter, writer and poet Thomas Hennell (1903-45) recorded country life in Britain during the 1930s and early 1940s. This is a biographical and critical account of his life and work which includes a memoir by Basil Gray, who knew Hennell from their schooldays together.

Shows and describes the background of a series of British mansions, farmhouses, country homes, and gardens, and includes converted chapels and schoolhouses

Looks at over fifty picturesque English towns, briefly discusses the background of each town, and explains the forces that shaped their development

Surveys in photographs and text the character, traditions, and architecture of numerous English country villages and examines their function as the centers of English country life

The nineteenth century English naturalist discusses birds, wildlife, rain, villages, towns, meadows, and the seasons

White's journal of life in the English countryside captures the constant surprises, joys, and natural wonders of the rural lifestyle

Product Description: Recorded the stories of people from the diverse trades & callings which made up the rural scene. Country life - England - Social life and customs - 20th century - Rural regions

The popular British novelist discusses her childhood and her visits to her two grandmothers in a biographical celebration of life in an English village

Investigates the history of villages in England and what life in them was like from their early origins, some in the Iron Age, to the present and how they have changed

Traces a year in the Lincolnshire village of Gerneham, from ploughing through sowing, harvesting, and threshing, with illustrations of village life inspired by the fourteenth-century Luttrell Psalter.