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Copsford (Paperback)
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Copsford (Paperback)
Series: Nature Classics Library
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List price R424
Loot Price R384
Discovery Miles 3 840
You Save R40 (9%)
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Walter Murray was a young man tired of living in the city. Early in
the 1920s, he persuaded a Sussex farmer to rent him a derelict
cottage, which stood alone on a hill, with no running water or
electricity. Most of the windows were broken, it was dirty, dark
and ran with rats. He bought a brush and pail in the village,
forced the rats to retreat, brought in rudimentary furniture. The
local postman found him a dog, and with his new companion he began
to explore his surroundings. In that year at Copsford he made a
living from collecting, drying and selling the herbs he found
locally: agrimony, meadow-sweet and yarrow. He became alert to the
wildlife and plants around him. His life was hard - he supplemented
his income with occasional journalism, but it was here he met his
future wife, who he calls The Music Mistress, and with whom he
would later found a school. Copsford is an extraordinary book.
Bearing comparison to Thoreau's Walden, Murray's intense feeling
for his place is evident on every page. It is, though, no simple
story of a rural idyll - life at Copsford was hard, and Murray does
not shy away from the occasional terrors of a house that had its
hauntings. A publishing success when first published in the late
1940s, this new edition has an introduction by Raynor Winn, author
of The Salt Path.
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