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Harvest by Jim Crace

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Harvest
by Jim Crace

This is the only fiction book I have in this section at the moment and it is a gem.

Set in medieval times, the story concerns a village about to be enclosed for sheep farming.

This entry was posted in 1400's, 1500's, Books and tagged arable, crops, enclosure, farming, fiction, sheep on June 28, 2013 by cow.

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