Author: Paul SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The Countrywoman
Author: Paul SmithA Life of Her Own
Author: Emilie CarlesPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0140169652
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
First published in France in 1977, this autobiography vivifies the captivating Carles from her peasant origins in a tiny Alpine village through her work as a teacher, farmer, mother, feminist and political activist.
The Countrywoman
Author: The Countrywoman
Author: Paul SmithPublisher:
ISBN: 9780330297547
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
How to Shovel Manure and Other Life Lessons for the Country Woman
Author: Gwen PetersenPublisher: Voyageur Press
ISBN: 1616739827
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
It’s not a job you want to take on without a sense of humor. Oops--it’s not a job at all. It’s an all-encompassing life, being a country woman on the ranch or farm, and with wit and equanimity like Gwen Petersen’s, it can be survived. In fact, with Petersen’s help, it can be drop-dead hilarious. A much-loved cowgirl scribe in rare form, Petersen eases us through the rigors of country living, from raising chickens to shoveling manure to cooking Rocky Mountain oysters. You’d think midwifing a calf was no laughing matter--until Gwen steps in with her expert advice. She has wise counsel for sharing the yard with a gaggle of ill-tempered geese; step-by-step instructions for harvesting pig manure; and sound advice for staying cool through haying season and coping with the chaos of Christmas on the ranch or farm. For good measure, the book includes poems and recipes that will transport you to a country state of mind--whether you hail from the city’s busiest streets or the ranch’s quietest gravel roads. Equal parts handy how-to advice, rural humor, philosophy, and fond farm nostalgia, How to Shovel Manure and Other Life Lessons for the Country Woman is all good.
The Countrywoman and Her Church
Author: Mary Heald WilliamsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rural churches
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
The Commonsense Book of a Countrywoman
Author: Hannah HauxwellPublisher:
ISBN: 9780953503520
Category : Common sense
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
High Country Woman
Author: Iris ScottPublisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN: 186979821X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
A special book about a unique high-country farmer and her historic sheep station. New Zealand's high country farmers are a special breed. They farm in tough terrain, at high altitudes, in areas where extreme climate puts both man and animal to the test. When she was widowed, with three children, in 1992 Iris Scott had to call on all her farming skill and inner strength to carry on as the runholder of the 150-year-old, 18,000-hectare Rees Valley Station at the head of Lake Wakatipu, near Glenorchy. Not only that, she had to run the station on her own and keep up her veterinary practice. High Country Woman is the engaging story of Iris Scott's love of our high country and her determination to farm it successfully while upholding high conservation and land-guardianship values. The book also covers the fascinating history of the area long known to locals as The Head of the Lake, the focus of William Rees' great sheep run, established not long after he and Nicolas von Tunzelman became two of the earliest Europeans to travel into the area in an epic exploration feat in 1860.
The Countrywoman
Author: Paul SmithA Countrywoman's Journal
Author: Margaret ShawPublisher:
ISBN: 9781597640473
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Over 200 skeches and photographs. Hidden in a drawer for over seventy years, Margaret Shaw's perfectly preserved sketchbook diaries from 1926 to 1928 record in watercolor and prose, the flora and fauna of an almost vanished world. In Shaw's charmed countryside, the eaves swarm with house martins, elm trees still grow tall and hedgerows are everywhere, full of "quarrelsome, noisy wrens."