Clive Venables

The author is one of a rare breed in that he is a first generation farmer. Armed with little more than self-confessed optimism, the company of angels, a stubborn determination not to fail and driven from an early age by family tragedy, he recounts in a sometimes poetic, generally amusing and always conversational style the characters, places, circumstances and struggles that have way marked his journey.
Principally this book has the late twentieth century U.K. farming scene as its canvas. On route to his present Dartmoor farm home and Pyrenean mountain retreat, he worked for eighteen months on a religious community and spent time in central and southern Africa.