Paul Heiney FARMING TIMES First Edition Signed
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Paul Heiney FARMING TIMES First Edition Signed
First edition, first print hardback of FARMING TIMES, by Paul Heiney and published by H. F. & G. Witherby Ltd., London in 1992. Signed by Heiney on the title page.
The book is in very good condition (Clean grey cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine) with only minor shelf wear to the dust jacket, which is not price clipped. Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no inscriptions.
Paul Heiney is a well known writer and broadcaster in the UK and over 30 years has appeared on all Britain's major radio and television networks and on ITV1's Countrywise, travelling to all parts of rural Britain to meet the people and hear their tales.
He spent seven years on BBC1's top-rated consumer affairs show, Watchdog, which continued a career in consumer journalism which began with That's Life in 1978, and continued later with Radio 4's You and Yours.
But Paul has had a rich life outside broadcasting. With over a dozen books to his credit, both fiction and non-fiction, he is a widely read author and his current Can Cows Walk Downstairs? has been a best-seller in fifteen languages. He has written on both rural, maritime and farming matters, and more recently on popular science.
In 2005, he fulfilled a longstanding ambition to sail the Atlantic singlehanded in the wake of the solo sailing pioneers, which led to his book The Last Man Across the Atlantic.
"In 1988 Paul Heiney suddenly decided to become a farmer. Not the usual kind - more of an Old MacDonald, the type who puts his faith in carthorses, a hand-plough and well-ripened muck.
A chance encounter with a couple who worked their land with horses, and subsequently a year's part-time labour on their farm, sowed the seeds of a passion that finally led him to brave the mirth of incredulous friends and begin the search for a place of his own on which he could practise the gentler methods of traditional agriculture.
So it was that in 1990 he and his wife, Libby Purves, installed themselves on 36 acres of Suffolk countryside (complete with traditional farm buildings and yard), together with their two young children, three splendid Suffolk Punch horses, some Red Poll cattle, Dorset sheep and a Large Black pig called Alice.
Two years of back-breaking labour later, all lingering bucolic fantasies have been dispelled. But, as readers of his `Farmer's Diary' column in The Times will know, the hard work has been accompanied by glorious moments of achievement. From the beginning of the enterprise they have lived with him through the traumas of the great thistle invasion and the first harvest; sympathised with him when he feared the task would overwhelm him; and rejoiced with him over the discovery of a precious horse-drawn binder and the safe delivery of Alice's first litter.
Heartwarming and funny (most often at his own expense), Farming Times is more than just a collection of Paul Heiney's best Times articles. It is a delightful chronicle of the changing seasons on an English farm and an unforgettable portrait of a man in determined pursuit of a dream. "
223 pages.
ISBN: 0 85493 215 1
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