Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay - Softcover

Evans, George Ewart

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571063535 ISBN 13: 9780571063536

Verlag: Faber & Faber, 1975

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Evans George Ewart

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Reseña del editor:

A classic picture of the rural past in a remote Suffolk village, revealed in the conversations of old people who recall harvest customs, home crafts, poetic usages in dialect, old farm tools, smugglers' tales, and rural customs and beliefs going back to the time of Chaucer.

Biografía del autor:

Born in the mining town of Abercynon, South Wales, George Ewart Evans (1909-88) was a pioneering oral historian. In 1948 he settled with his family in Blaxhall, Suffolk, and through conversing with his neighbours he developed an interest in their dialect and the aspects of rural life which they described. Many were agricultural labourers, born before the turn of the century, who had worked on farms before the arrival of mechanisation. With the assistance of a tape recorder he collected oral evidence of the dialect, rural customs, traditions and folklore throughout East Anglia, and this work, reinforced by documental research, provided the background for his renowned East Anglian books.

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• Verlag: Faber & Faber
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1975
• ISBN 10: 0571063535
• ISBN 13: 9780571063536
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272