About a Village

ISBN: 071123258X

Author: McCabe, E. J.

Condition: Used

What is it that makes the ideal English village? Firle in East Sussex isboth unique and universal. First of all there is a pub and in no particularorder come a school, a shop, a cricket pitch, a church, a stream, ablacksmith, allotments, flint walls, house martins. Above all, the villageseems to contain that rarest of ingredients, delight.Firle sits literally at the end of the road. It is the last place you canreach by car before coming in summer to a wandering line of chalk and inwinter to something a little muddier. Beyond the road are the wildlandscapes of the South Downs, sleeping and keeping the bones of those whowere first to arrive at the end of the last ice age. It is the connectionbetween village, people and these hills which makes it such a special place.In a delightful photo essay, acclaimed photographer Eamonn J. McCabecaptures some of what makes this English village come alive. Big open skies,small boys holding a colourful caterpillar, cabbages and tea cosies,bonfires, bikers, dogs and wellies. This is a book for all those who cherishEnglish country life.