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This Farming Life

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What to expect

The joys and the harsh realities of farm life, from a writer whose family has farmed the same piece of land for five generations.


'Tough and tender, heartfelt, fabulous.' Linda Burgess

Farmer Tim Saunders manages to incorporate some writing into his days, and here he describes his life through the seasons: Summer, shearing, slaughter, crop harvest, conservation; Autumn, floods, trading stock, drenching, dagging; Winter, maize harvest, lambing; and Spring, docking, pet sheep, weaning.

It's a tough life and through his powerful, poignant writing Tim tells of his connection to the land, why he loves farming, how he's also conflicted by it and what it is that keeps him tethered to that place.
Author Tim Saunders
Narrator Stephen Hunter
Duration 7 hours and 1 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781004013876
Format Audiobook
Publisher W. F. Howes Ltd
Genre Cookery / food and drink
Availability AU, GB, IE, US

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