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Homesteading
The English Husbandman (The Second Booke)
Gervase Markham
143 pages~2 hr 50 min read22 chapters$1.99
Markham's second book ranges wider: managing woods, breeding cattle, the art of angling, and even the fighting cock. It is a country gentleman's whole world set down in one volume, from timber to table to sport. A vivid guide to rural life in early modern England. Everything the seventeenth-century landholder was expected to know.
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22 chapters
- 1THE Second Booke of the English Husbandman.
- 2A Table of all the principall matters contayned in this Booke.
- 3The Table of the second part of the second Booke. Contayning the Ordering of all sorts of VVoods, and the breeding of Cattell.
- 4Of Angling.
- 5Of the fighting Cocke.
- 6THE FIRST PART of the second Booke of the English Husbandman: Contayning the Ordering of the Kitchin-garden, and the planting of strange Flovvers.
- 7Chap. I.
- 8Chap. II.
- 9Chap. III.
- 10Chap. IIII.
- 11Chap. V.
- 12Chap. VI.
- 13Chap. VII.
- 14THE SECOND PART OF THE SECOND BOOKE of the English Husbandman:
- 15Chap. I.
- 16Chap. II.
- 17Chap. III.
- 18Chap. IIII.
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