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The Pattern Under the Plough
George Ewart Evans
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Description for The Pattern Under the Plough
paperback. Pioneering book of oral history, The Pattern Under the Plough shows that even in modern societies, governed by science and technology, there are still traces of a civilisation whose beliefs were bound to the soil and whose reliance on the seasons was a matter of life or death. Illustrator(s): Gentleman, David. Series: Nature Classics Library. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HBTD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 218 x 22. Weight in Grams: 394.
In 1948, shortly after settling with his family in the village of Blaxhall, Suffolk, George Ewart Evans started recording the conversations he had with neighbours, many of whom were born in the nineteenth century and had worked on farms before the arrival of mechanisation. He soon realised that below the surface of their stories were the remnants of an ancient, rural culture previously ignored by historians. In the detail of village architecture, the of superstitions of tree-planting and rituals house-building, in the esoteric practices of horse cults or the pagan habit of 'telling the bees', The Pattern Under the Plough ... Read more
In 1948, shortly after settling with his family in the village of Blaxhall, Suffolk, George Ewart Evans started recording the conversations he had with neighbours, many of whom were born in the nineteenth century and had worked on farms before the arrival of mechanisation. He soon realised that below the surface of their stories were the remnants of an ancient, rural culture previously ignored by historians. In the detail of village architecture, the of superstitions of tree-planting and rituals house-building, in the esoteric practices of horse cults or the pagan habit of 'telling the bees', The Pattern Under the Plough ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Little Toller Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
Nature Classics Library
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Wimborne Minster, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781908213099
SKU
V9781908213099
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99-14
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