Dimensions
202 x 262 x 24mm
Clarissa Dickson Wright won her countryside spurs with her rural mentor Johnny Scott in the first series of 'Clarissa And The Countryman', which linked farming, field sports and conservation. Now they take the theme further to show the connection between rural communities and urban employment.
The starting point of this series is Johnny's new farm in the Borders from which Clarissa and Johnny investigate various countryside schemes: woodland regeneration, areas of scientific interest, the way farming is developing and the repair of damage done by mono-culture; how the countryside is still begin shaped for game cover; woodland predator control.
Clarissa and Johnny sally forth from the farm to tweed-makers in Halifax, a gunsmith in Lancashire, bootmakers in Northamptonshire and to see woodland management in the West Country. They meet the West Mersey Terrier and Lurcher Club in Liverpool and a gun engraver in Birmingham.
We follow Clarissa, who has vowed to take up riding again, as she visits outfitters who supply riding clothes and boots in the Black Country and as Clarissa and Johnny investigate the way many urban countrymen keep in touch with their rural background through their gun dogs and ferrets.
Although there is a tendency to think of rural and urban life as separate entities, Clarissa and Johnny show how each depends on the other and is inextricably interwoven.
