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READERS of Henry Williamson's books have long known that some four or five years ago he bought a derelict farm in Norfolk in a district thinly veiled under the pseudonym Whelk-on-Sea, and that he had settled down there with the view of putting it in good order and farming it properly. Few tasks could be more agreeable to a man of adventurous disposition: it involves serious difficulties, both material and human, and considerable financial risks, while failure, if it comes, is regarded as somewhat ignoble or at least in accordance with the forecast of local experts who “told you so”. But success has a peculiar satisfaction, and for this men have been prepared to stake a good deal.
The Story of a Norfolk Farm
By Henry Williamson. Pp. 403 + 11 plates. (London: Faber and Faber, Ltd., 1941.) 10s. 6d. net.
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RUSSELL, E. The Story of a Norfolk Farm. Nature 147, 340 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147340a0
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