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Hope Bourne is probably the best-known chronicler of Exmoor in recent times. Through
her many books and television appearances, she established herself as a champion of the
Moor ¿ its people, its customs, its language and its wildlife ¿ expressed in a language both
poetic and direct. There are few other writers who encapsulated so memorably the virtues
of rural life.
First published in 1978, Wild Harvest was described by the author as `The distillation of
many years¿ practical experience of living comfortably and happily on an incredibly small
cash income,¿ tucked in a `corner of one of the last remaining patches of wilderness
country in this South West region of Britain. I love the wilderness. I love its space, its
defiant freedom, its proud unconquered spirit, its wild and primal beauty, its challenge to
the human soul.¿
Wild Harvest is a remarkable book by a remarkable woman.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Hope Bourne was born in Oxford in 1918 but
brought up at Hartland in North Devon. She
lived on Exmoor for some 60 years, for two
decades in a caravan at Ferny Ball near
Withypool. Growing or shooting her own food,
she earned her living as a writer, publishing
four books in her lifetime as well as pamphlets
and a regular newspaper column. In later years
three television documentaries about her life
brought her to the attention of an even wider
public.
Hope Bourne died in August 2010 a few days
short of her 92nd birthday. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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