CLOSE TO THE EARTH
Written by Judith Cook
Published by Routledge & Kegan Paul
in 1984
ISBN: 0710096348
- Categorised in:
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- INDUSTRY
- SOCIAL HISTORY
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Front cover
Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part 1: OUT OF THE EARTH
- 1 The oldest craft
- 2 The tinners
- 3 Dying for coal
- 4 Baddesley miners
- 5 Working for the slate
- Part 2: COASTAL WATERS
- 6 Singing the fishing
- 7 The great Newlyn Fishing Battle
- 8 The silver darlings
- 9 Mending the nets
- 10 Oysters and crabs
- 11 Colliers, cockles and coracles
- 12 The islanders
- Part 3: ON THE LAND
- 13 A farmer's wife
- 14 The little old boys
- 15 In service - the poacher's wife
- 16 The Dartmoor man
- 17 Brewing in a London village
- Bibliography