Rural Communities

Another wonderful new series from the top 10 bestselling author of The Cornish Midwife, Jo Bartlett. Welcome to Seabreeze Farm.Unhappy with life in...

Colicky horses, trucks high-centered in pastures, late nights spent in barns birthing calves--the trials and tribulations of farm and ranch life ar...

This social history of the 'ordinary' people of the south-western peninsula of Argyll, in Western Scotland, has become a classic since its original...

The final captivating book from the No1, million copy bestseller Shari Low's fabulous series that will make you laugh and cry...Two weeks, four fri...

''Wind-whipped and salt-stung, Malcolm''s account of island life is both grounding and immensely heart-warming. He is to GPs what James Herriot is ...

A riveting portrait of a rural Pennsylvania town at the center of the fracking controversyShale gas extractioncommonly known as frackingis often po...

In 2006, Kwan Kew Lai left her full-time position as a professor in the United States to provide medical humanitarian aid to the remote villages...

Thanks to James Herriot, the Dales have fame and popularity worldwide. The Herriot books introduced a huge public to the colourful life of a rural ...

Despite the great changes that the twentieth century brought to the lives and roles of the women of rural Wales, there has been scant attention pai...

Shocked by a five-month arson spree that left a Virginia county reeling, reporter Monica Hesse drove to Accomack to cover the trial of Charlie Smit...

The arsons started on a cold November midnight and didnt stop for months. Night after night, the people of Accomack County waited to see which buil...

On an island at the eastern edge of India, rural, remote and dense with jungle, is a Muslim village. In an ever-shifting landscape of mangroves and...

This study addresses the role of agricultural policies in raising incomes in developing countries. Higher incomes are essential for sustained progr...

Half the world''s population lives in rural places, but education scholars and policy makers worldwide give little attention to rural of education....

Look at any list of America's top foodie cities and you probably won't find Boise, Idaho or Sitka, Alaska. Yet they are the new face of the food mo...

A richly recounted memoir of growing up in an Irish farming community in the 1940sA love of Ireland and the Irish is what shines through this littl...

In the 1970s, John Seymour's book, The Complete Book of Self Sufficiency was a huge, international best-seller, inspiring a new generation to down-...

Eduardo Galeano writes: These pages, written in bursts, disorderly, jubilant and desperate, tell of the adventures and misfortunes of the man who h...

This is the personal journal of a young American woman, living for six months amongst the Dodoth cattle-herdsmen in Northern Uganda. It is also an...

When it was first published in 1987, this picture of the lives of country folk from the eighteenth century to the early twentieth completed a trilo...

Cement, Earthworms, and Cheese Factories examines the ways in which religion and community development are closely intertwined in a rural part of c...

Allan Cunningham's Traditional Tales is a selection of folk stories steeped in the traditions and popular literature of southern Scotland and north...

A charming guide to the story of the English village, celebrating this beloved heart of the countryside.The village remains a quintessential and m...

In many communities across North America in the 1960s and 1970s, the rural-relocation movement became both a way of life and a path forward for man...

Rural England is a mythic space, a complex canvas on which people from many different backgrounds project all kinds of fantasies, prejudices, desir...

Theres more to life than being fabulous but its a startRoz and Jamie have moved to leafy Suffolk from London in search of a quiet life, so its a sh...