With reverence and love, Britain's most admired rural writer chronicles daily life in a Stour valley village, finding beauty and significance in its sheer ordinariness as well as its many literary, artistic and historic associations.

Provides fictionalized accounts of explorers, travelers, settlers, soldiers, ranchers, and a scientist who helped settle the Southwest.

Series title also at head of t.p.

Photographic frontispiece of a portrait of Mackenzie in what appears to be a carbon print. Carbon prints will sometimes show solid grains in the print. -- David Hanson documentation.