A Countryman's Year
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
There is a rhythm to the countryside that most modern lives have forgotten — A Countryman's Year by Alan C. Jenkins restores it, guiding the reader through the turning seasons with the unhurried eye of a man who truly belongs to the land. From the frost-hardened fields of January to the amber abundance of autumn harvest, Jenkins chronicles the unfolding drama of rural British life, capturing the habits of wildlife, the labours of farming, and the quiet ceremonies of village existence with warmth and precision. Illustrated with evocative artwork by Peter Barrett, the book presents the natural world not as a distant spectacle but as an intimate, breathing companion to daily life. Jenkins writes with the authority of deep observation, grounding each month in concrete detail — the first lambs trembling in a March meadow, the swallows gathering on telegraph wires before their great southern flight — so that the reader feels the cold, smells the turned earth, and hears the changing birdsong. Rooted in the traditions of the great English nature-writing canon, the work sits comfortably alongside the pastoral essays of Richard Jefferies and the seasonal journals of W.H. Hudson, yet retains a distinctly approachable, celebratory voice. For anyone who has ever stood at a field's edge and felt the pull of something older and quieter than the modern world, this book will feel less like a purchase and more like a homecoming.
Author: Alan C. Jenkins
Format: Hardback
Genre: Natural history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
There is a rhythm to the countryside that most modern lives have forgotten — A Countryman's Year by Alan C. Jenkins restores it, guiding the reader through the turning seasons with the unhurried eye of a man who truly belongs to the land. From the frost-hardened fields of January to the amber abundance of autumn harvest, Jenkins chronicles the unfolding drama of rural British life, capturing the habits of wildlife, the labours of farming, and the quiet ceremonies of village existence with warmth and precision. Illustrated with evocative artwork by Peter Barrett, the book presents the natural world not as a distant spectacle but as an intimate, breathing companion to daily life. Jenkins writes with the authority of deep observation, grounding each month in concrete detail — the first lambs trembling in a March meadow, the swallows gathering on telegraph wires before their great southern flight — so that the reader feels the cold, smells the turned earth, and hears the changing birdsong. Rooted in the traditions of the great English nature-writing canon, the work sits comfortably alongside the pastoral essays of Richard Jefferies and the seasonal journals of W.H. Hudson, yet retains a distinctly approachable, celebratory voice. For anyone who has ever stood at a field's edge and felt the pull of something older and quieter than the modern world, this book will feel less like a purchase and more like a homecoming.