Hardback, Clive Holloway Books, new edition, with a new Introduction by Richard Williamson and illustrations by Christopher Wormell.

Book condition: with the dust wrapper; pages a little tanned due to the poor quality of the paper stock used in printing, otherwise very good.

The publisher's blurb to this edition reads:

'This is a reprint of Henry Williamson's autobiographical account of his first two years as an amateur farmer, now superbly illustrated with original woodcut drawings.

'Drained of inspiration after writing 20 books of wildlife and countryside fantasy, Williamson invests his entire capital in a small, run-down, Norfolk farm.

'He hasn't the faintest idea of how to go about the job of farming, and the stories of his hopelessness, told with dry humour, are offset by a fascinating account of how, gradually, things actually begin to work.

'There are beautifully written passages describing the Norfolk countryside and its characters, as can be expected from the author of Tarka the Otter and Salar the Salmon.

'In the opinion of Ian Niall this down-to-earth and thoroughly entertaining account of what happened, when the dreamer came face to face with reality, is Williamson's greatest literary achievement.

'The book is not "dated". It is not the means, but the concept of going into farming when you are wholly ignorant but equally determined. that is the basic ingredient of this story.

'The reader will not come away feeling that he has learnt a great deal about how to run a farm; but equally he needs no prior experience of farming himself to enjoy this book to its full extent.'

(For a further consideration of the book and the background to the writing of it, see Anne Williamson's The Story of a Norfolk Farm.)