Description - Farms, Fields and Valleys of Jersey by Philip Stevens
Jersey is now a highly populated English-speaking island, whose main industries lie in financial services and tourism. A hundred years ago, however, the country parishes depended on farming, with a population of largely old Norman origin, speaking Jersey-French. Fortunately, the Island possesses a substantial photographic archive which enables us to return to a lost world of farms, fields and valleys around the year 1900, and get an idea of the life of an industrious people in a bucolic setting. This book, and the exhibition which it accompanies, take a meandering tour across the Island, and try to show why islanders and tourists spoke so highly of the beauty of its countryside.
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