Lifting the Latch

Lifting the Latch PDF Author: Sheila Stewart
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 222

Book Description
For nearly eighty years, Mont Abbott lived and worked on the land round the parish of Enstone in Oxfordshire. Constructed from a series of taped conversations with Mont, the author has created a record of custom and change in this tightly-knit rural community.

Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary

Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary PDF Author: Edward H. Knight
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385390346
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 970

Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

A Case for a Stubborn Heart

A Case for a Stubborn Heart PDF Author: Hobart G. Everson
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 145671631X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 298

Book Description
This is a story about a country boy, born into poverty in a community where almost every male of age worked in the coal mines, The author's older brothers and father, almost all of his uncles and cousins, and non-relatives in the community, nearlyall worked in the coal mines. The author, at a very young age, vowed to himself that he would never go to work in the coal mines. Where education was not rated very highly, since none was needed to work underground in the dirty, dangerous mines. As this was quite a difficult vow at this place and in that time, it proved to be a real struggle to escapethe environment and the culture of the neighborhood. How he managed to do this proved to be a struggle and a precarious journey for a shy country boy.
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