The Great Drought of 1976 by Evelyn Cox, 1978, Vintage Farming Autobiography Hardback

The Great Drought of 1976 by Evelyn Cox, 1978, published by Readers Union, Newton Abbott. Hardback, 149 pages.

This vintage farming memoir is in good condition - there is some foxing to the dust-jacket's flaps and there is a bookplate on the front flysheet.
Otherwise there is no writing, tearing, creasing or dog-earing.

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Blurb reads:
The great drought of 1976 is already becoming part of our folk memory. For most town dwellers it meant little more than inconvenience - parched laws and unwashed cars. In the country, however, it reached the proportions of a disaster. Its effects were felt much earlier and much more severely, and it became an occasion a matter of life and death.
Evelyn Cox and her husband own a farm in Herefordshire, where they also train show jumpers. The author is not a countrywoman, and perhaps for that very reason her account of that traumatic summer has an extra dimension. She tells in fascinating detail the story of the increasing hardship caused by the water shortage month after month; of their efforts to spin out and augment the dwindling supply; above all, of their efforts to protect the animals from as much suffering as possible. It is told against the lively and sometimes amusing background of a small rural community reacting to the stresses of a very exceptional year.
For country people who were seriously affected by the drought, this book will be a fascinating reminder and point of comparison. For town dwellers who look back on the long hot summer with nostalgia, it will throw a new light on some of the unexpected realities of country living.

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