Country Matters The Pleasures and Tribulations of Moving from a Big City to an Old Country Farmhouse

Name: Country Matters The Pleasures and Tribulations of Moving from a Big City to an Old Country Farmhouse
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ISBN: 9780060957483

ISBN-10: 0060957484

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Authors: Michael. Korda, Success Research Success Research Cor

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With his inimitable sense of humor and storytelling talent, New York Times bestselling author Michael Korda brings us this charming, hilarious, self-deprecating memoir of a city couple's new life in the country. At once entertaining, canny, and moving, Country Matters does for Dutchess County, New York, what Under the Tuscan Sun did for Tuscany. This witty memoir, replete with Korda's own line drawings, reads like a novel, as it chronicles the author's transformation from city slicker to full-time country gentleman, complete with tractors, horses, and a leaking roof. When he decides to take up residence in an eighteenth-century farmhouse in Dutchess County, ninety miles north of New York…

Book details

List price: $17.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 5/14/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.72" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Michael Korda was born on October 8, 1933 in London, England. He was educated at Le Rosey in Switzerland and at Magdalen College, Oxford. While serving in the Royal Air Force, he took part in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. On its fiftieth anniversary, he was awarded the Order of Merit of the People's Republic of Hungary. He is the former editor in chief of Simon & Schuster. He is also the author of numerous books including Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia, With Wings Like Eagles: A History of the Battle of Britain, Clouds of Glory: The Life and Legend of Robert E. Lee, and Cat People, co-authored with his wife Margaret.



The Six "Golden Rules" of Owning an Old House



"He Don't Know Shit About Septics"



Asleep at the Switch



"Whack It All Back!"



A Man's Home Is His Castle



A Barn of One's Own



"Them's Nice Pigs, Them Pigs"



Lunch at Cady's



Just Plain Folks



Good Fences Make Good Neighbors



Bats in the Belfry



Where Every Prospect Pleases, and Only Man Is Vile



One Left-handed Clevis, Please



Nature Green of Tooth and Claw



Manure



The Wrong Deer



The White Stuff



Viva Zapata!



The Acropolis



"Do You Know Egg?"



A Nice Cup of Tea



"Make That a Dozen Barbarian Kremes"



The Sporting Instinct



Free Kittens!



"Change and Decay ..."



No Place Like Home


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