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luzulaCountry Life in Scotland: Our Rural Past, by Alexander Fenton (1987)
More fic research. This is exactly what I needed for info about 18th century agriculture in the Highlands, and will be most useful to me! Also, bless archive.org. I didn't actually know until recently that you could borrow ebooks there (thanks,regshoe!). It's not very convenient to read them on the screen as you have to do, but a lot more convenient than not having access to the books at all.
Alfabet by Inger Christensen (1981, read in the original Danish)
I can't remember who in my DW circle recced this? Anyway, I saw it standing in my Danish brother-in-law's bookcase and borrowed it. It is a book of poetry, mostly concerned with nature and humanity's relationship to nature (and destruction of it). I like the structure of it a lot--it begins with an alphabetical assertion of things that exist, beginning with "abrikostræerna findes, abrikostræerna findes" (apricot trees exist). I've never read a book in Danish before, but it was quite possible, allowing for a little Google translate of difficult words. The degree of difference between Swedish and Danish is about like that between English and Scots, I would guess (er, I'm sorry that everything needs to be related to my current fandom. *facepalm*)
Speaking of fandom, my poly Flight of the Heron fic is now at 27K! \o/
More fic research. This is exactly what I needed for info about 18th century agriculture in the Highlands, and will be most useful to me! Also, bless archive.org. I didn't actually know until recently that you could borrow ebooks there (thanks,
regshoe!). It's not very convenient to read them on the screen as you have to do, but a lot more convenient than not having access to the books at all. Alfabet by Inger Christensen (1981, read in the original Danish)
I can't remember who in my DW circle recced this? Anyway, I saw it standing in my Danish brother-in-law's bookcase and borrowed it. It is a book of poetry, mostly concerned with nature and humanity's relationship to nature (and destruction of it). I like the structure of it a lot--it begins with an alphabetical assertion of things that exist, beginning with "abrikostræerna findes, abrikostræerna findes" (apricot trees exist). I've never read a book in Danish before, but it was quite possible, allowing for a little Google translate of difficult words. The degree of difference between Swedish and Danish is about like that between English and Scots, I would guess (er, I'm sorry that everything needs to be related to my current fandom. *facepalm*)
Speaking of fandom, my poly Flight of the Heron fic is now at 27K! \o/
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Date: 2020-10-25 05:09 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2020-10-25 08:14 am (UTC)I am tempted to read An Essay on Ways and Means of Inclosing, Fallowing, Planting, ... by William Macintosh of Borlum next. It was written in 1729 and was apparently a major impetus of the agricultural revolution. He seems to have been an interesting person! He was a Jacobite commander in the '15 and the father of one of the main characters of The Bull Calves. Also, perhaps surprisingly, he expressed sympathy for the Levellers in Galloway, where the common people seem to have been early victims of enclosure and eviction in the 1720's.
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Date: 2020-10-25 09:53 am (UTC)Huh, strange to see someone both writing books recommending enclosure and expressing sympathy for Levellers—he does sound like an interesting person!
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Date: 2020-10-25 12:58 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2020-10-25 06:10 pm (UTC)