Rural Communities

Malcolm Alexander is to GPs what James Herriot is to vets MATT GAW_____________________An ode to island life in all its glorious foibles THE HERA...

Booklist Editors Choice Best Books of 2019 An intimate portrait of the joys and hardships of rural life, as one man searches for community, equal...

Lucian Wing is the sheriff of a backwoods county in Vermont, a hardscrabble place far from the picture-postcard gaze. He is also a man with a probl...

How do you remember the summers of your childhood? ...

Over the last forty years, the landscape of the United States has been fundamentally transformed. It is partially visible in the ascendance of glit...

Journey into the heartland of rural Ireland, in words and images, from the 1930s to today. Meet the characters behind the Ploughing Championships, ...

The pattern of rural life in early medieval Spain is here vividly brought to life through careful examination of contemporary documents. In the ea...

The East Country is a work of creative nonfiction in which the acclaimed nature writer Jules Pretty integrates memoir, natural history, cultural cr...

The Last Cowboys is Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter John Branchs epic tale of one American family struggling to hold on to the fading vestiges of t...

This book is about the generations of people who have made the farms we know today. Engaging, enjoyable and informative, the author uses various fa...