The Fat of the Land

By:

John Seymour

Format:

Paperback / softback

Series:

Nature Classics Library

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In the 1970s, John Seymour's book, The Complete Book of Self Sufficiency was a huge, international best-seller, inspiring a new generation to "down-shift" to a new way of life. The book has remained in print ever since. But years earlier, Seymour had written and published The Fat of the Land, telling of how he and his family settled in Suffolk and began a life entirely separate from the modern world. This was a seminal book, published the year before Silent Spring, and offers a personal, practical and optimistic vision of a less-mechanized and less polluting world, one that works in harmony with nature, rather than against it. He goes on to document their life and struggles on the land in chapters on cows, pigs, vegetables and wild food in charming prose. More than fifty years on, The Fat of the Land remains an important and inspiring book, one which retains its power to make us think carefully about our own lives. This new edition comes complete with Sally Seymour's original illustrations, a foreword by Anne Seymour and a new introduction by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall.

Author Biography:

John Seymour (1914-2004) was a prolific author, broadcaster and activist in the self-sufficiency movement. Having travelled widely in his youth, both in Africa and around the waterways of England, he settled in Suffolk and then in Pembrokeshire in South Wales.Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is a renowned chef, food writer and campaigner, whose River Cottage books and television shows have made him a household name. He lives in Dorset and campaigns for animal welfare, sustainable food production and the environment.

Release date Australia

February 7th, 2017

Author

John Seymour

Series

Nature Classics Library

Contributors

Foreword by Anne Seymour
Illustrated by Sally Seymour
Inked or colored by Alice Pattulo
Introduction by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

Edition

New edition

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Illustrations

Illustrated with Sally Seymour's drawings

ISBN-13

9781908213488

Product ID

26147559

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