The Fat of the Land [Paperback]

John Seymour (Author), Sally Seymour (Illustrator)

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Paperback: 192 pages
Publisher: Carningli Books (April 6 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0954564618
ISBN-13: 978-0954564612
Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 1.8 cm
Shipping Weight: 141 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #714,169 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Back to the Land, Jun 3 2007

By Denise Lambert Skeen - Published on Amazon.com

This review is from: The Fat of the Land (Paperback)

I love narratives of people's experiences. Those are probably my very favorite types of books. We know and love John Seymour from later books based more on skills, how to, but this is his narrative, of his life with his family in England in the 1950s. Yeah, so he divorced and later moved to Ireland (hey, I'd rather live in Ireland too). This is still a beautiful and inspirational book. But perhaps it takes a strange person like me to get excited reading about how a man grew turnips then pastured his hogs on them, and how they then canned the meat and how delicious it was. Re-thatching his house was also very interesting, and a prescient comment on the state of real skills today. Hmmm, I think I'll go read it again.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Well written and authentic, July 10 2010

By Jenny MacKinnon - Published on Amazon.com

This review is from: The Fat of the Land (Paperback)

The topics and themes in this book are quite common ideals these days, but when this book was written, John Seymour was an iconoclastic idealist. He bucked the trend of wanting everything new, easy-to-use and shiny as a consumer, and he bucked the trend of mechanistic, big business farming. And he can write.

Read it if you like gardening or dream of a hobby farm, or if you regularly wear hand-knitted jumpers and bake your own bread. Leave it alone if those things leave you cold.

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