Following his two classics, Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay and The Horse in the Furrow, renowned oral historian George Ewart Evans continues his study of the vanishing customs, working habits and rich language of the farming communities of East Anglia with The Pattern Under the Plough (Faber, 1966)
China under the plough
β Scribed by Higham, Charles
- Book ID
- 109736480
- Publisher
- Nature Publishing Group
- Year
- 1984
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 309 KB
- Volume
- 311
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0028-0836
- DOI
- 10.1038/311086a0
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