Inspirational books

[Netherfield]

Under one roof by Barry Martin and Philip Lerman.

I'm not a great reader, but somehow I couldn't put this one down.

 

[Man_in_black]

Oh The Places You'll Go - by Dr Seuss very inspiring.

 

[AF Salers]

For a good laugh at traditional dog n stick farming with excellent illustrations you must read the Henry Brewis series of books, I re read them every couple of years

 

[yellowbelly]

For a good laugh at traditional dog n stick farming with excellent illustrations you must read the Henry Brewis series of books, I re read them every couple of years

You may even be able to recognize one or two of the characters posting on here

 

[reverand]

Cold by ranulph fiennes. He is a fair chap!

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

Cold by ranulph fiennes. He is a fair chap!

And "Mad, Bad and Dangerous to know" by him too. I love his antics at Eton.

 

[bovrill]

Has anyone else ever read the unabridged Lorna Doone? I always recommend it as an good agricultural read. Most of it is about the running of a large Exmoor farm in the run up and during the civil war.

I've bought a job lot ag themed books from eBay to read this winter, including several by AG Street.

 

[S J H]

Hurricane Tim is very interesting

 

[DeeGee]

Bleak House.

 

[DeeGee]

'The Farming Ladder' by George Henderson is still an agricultural benchmark despite the fact that it was written some eighty years ago in the inter war years of the depression. How two brothers with little previous experience of farming took on a derelict farm called, I think 'Oathill',near Enstone and eventually made massive profits at a time when many established farmers were leaving the land or allowing it to revert to the wild due to poor returns.
I think that the descendants of the Hendersons make 'Cherry Products' attachments, but I stand to be corrected on this. The original Hendersons were really remarkable people who were always true and honest in their dealings; and proved that hard work, enterprise and honesty were the keys to success.

 

[jackrussell101]

The Resilient Farmer by Doug Avery

 

[Lowland1]

The farm in the fen by Alan Bloom

 

[Old Tip]

The books by Oliver Rackham are great if your interested in the history of the British countryside. Spacious Days by Twist is fantastic as are the rest of his books on farming between the wars.
But the best book I’ve ever read and have read so many times is Isolation Shepherd, you feel like your there with him in the isolation of the Scottish mountains

 

[jackrussell101]

I've just started reading Dirt to Soil by Gabe Brown.

Only read the 1st chapter so far but reads well and I think it will be another good book.

 

[Matt78]

I read a lot of books.

I recently read the Biography of Sydney Kidman, its called 'The Cattle King' I thoroughly recommend it to anyone.

He puts modern 'entrepreneurs to shame'.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6139384-the-cattle-king

Anyone else like to suggest similar books that might be worth a go?

Will

kings in grass castles

 

[Agrivator]

Anything by James Herriot,well it was inspirational to me as an 8 year old.

I've only read one book since I left school,I'd still sooner read a user manual and learn.

All the stories, bar one, in his vet books were complete myths. He never ever practised in the North Yorkshire Dales - he only went there for a run out from lowland Thirsk - the land of milk and borrowed money - at weekends.

The only true story that I know of was Mrs Pumphrey's? Flop Bot, which he guarded jealously from his colleagues. He even imagined that farmers in Swaledale and Wensleydale would greet him with ''now then Vitinry'' The very idea. ?

But John Cherrington's book is a gem. When he asked an Irish vendor of Shorthorn heifers if they were empty or in-calf, the vendor's reply was ''sure, I can guarantee them either way, Sir''.

 

[Martin Holden]

Lee Iococca the American Automobile man - his Autobiography! Some life and business brain!

 

[n.w]

As a young man, I thoroughly enjoyed Henry Williamson, Story of a Norfolk Farm.. set between the wars in N.Norfolk when farms were derelict, also Island Years/ Island Farm. Frank Fraser Darling. living on a remote Hebridean Island ! [ my two favourite places]

 

[Poorbuthappy]

I've just started reading Dirt to Soil by Gabe Brown.

Only read the 1st chapter so far but reads well and I think it will be another good book.

Great book.

 

[le bon paysan]

Not farming but
Slavomir Rawicz , The long walk. His autobiography of being a Polish cavalry officer ,taken prisoner by the Russians, sent to the Siberian gulag and his escape . He walked from Siberia to India over the Himalayas .