Reviews

Brave Old World: A Practical Guide To Husbandry Or The Fine Art Of Looking After by Tom Hodgkinson

anneliesleest's review

3.0

Full of some patent nonsense at times, but an amusing read nonetheless.

asmyr42's review

3.0

Part joyful back-to-the-land urbanite romancing and romanticizing the Country Life, part fist-shaking curmudgeonly Libertarian diatribe with sharp views about government folly that are sometimes dead on, and sometimes more to the tinfoil hat end of things. Throw in a soupçon of self-satisfied sneering at Political Correctness, and you've got yourself a book. I'm really torn about this, because at times, the narrative was truly charming, and I was completely drawn into the bucolic imagery he presented. I also enjoyed his employment of Classical Roman sources to support his project; most books of this sort stick with country wisdom of much more recent vintage. Yet at other times, I was annoyed and baffled about his frequent unpleasantnesses, often completely without reasonable cause.