Early To Rise: A Sussex Boyhood
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: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Long before the age of mass media and modern convenience reshaped the English countryside, a boy grew up in the rolling hills of Sussex, steeped in the rhythms of rural life, ancient folk song, and the deep-rooted traditions of a farming community — and Early to Rise: A Sussex Boyhood is his vivid, tender account of that vanishing world. Bob Copper, celebrated custodian of the Copper Family's centuries-old singing tradition and author of the beloved A Song for Every Season, chronicles his formative years on the South Downs with an storyteller's gift for detail, conjuring the sights, sounds, and smells of a pre-war agricultural England that has all but disappeared. From the breaking of dawn over frost-laden fields to the camaraderie of harvest time, Copper presents a boyhood shaped by hard work, close community, and an intimate connection to the land. Beyond personal memoir, this is a document of profound cultural and historical significance, preserving the oral traditions, dialect, and folk wisdom of a Sussex rural community at the precise moment of its transformation. Copper's prose is warm, unhurried, and richly evocative, carrying the same authenticity and quiet authority that distinguished his earlier work as a folk revival figurehead. Readers who cherish the pastoral writing of Laurie Lee or the social history of Ronald Blythe will find in these pages a kindred spirit — and a lingering question about just how much of that irreplaceable world we have allowed to slip away.
Author: Bob Copper
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Long before the age of mass media and modern convenience reshaped the English countryside, a boy grew up in the rolling hills of Sussex, steeped in the rhythms of rural life, ancient folk song, and the deep-rooted traditions of a farming community — and Early to Rise: A Sussex Boyhood is his vivid, tender account of that vanishing world. Bob Copper, celebrated custodian of the Copper Family's centuries-old singing tradition and author of the beloved A Song for Every Season, chronicles his formative years on the South Downs with an storyteller's gift for detail, conjuring the sights, sounds, and smells of a pre-war agricultural England that has all but disappeared. From the breaking of dawn over frost-laden fields to the camaraderie of harvest time, Copper presents a boyhood shaped by hard work, close community, and an intimate connection to the land. Beyond personal memoir, this is a document of profound cultural and historical significance, preserving the oral traditions, dialect, and folk wisdom of a Sussex rural community at the precise moment of its transformation. Copper's prose is warm, unhurried, and richly evocative, carrying the same authenticity and quiet authority that distinguished his earlier work as a folk revival figurehead. Readers who cherish the pastoral writing of Laurie Lee or the social history of Ronald Blythe will find in these pages a kindred spirit — and a lingering question about just how much of that irreplaceable world we have allowed to slip away.