Rural Communities

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...