In the 1970s, John Seymour`s book, The Complete Book of Self Sufficiency was a huge, international best-seller, inspiring a new generation to ”down-shift” to a new way of life. The book has remained in print ever since. But years earlier, Seymour had written & published The Fat of the L&, telling of how he & his family settled in Suffolk & began a life entirely separate from the modern world. This was a seminal book, published the year before Silent Spring, & offers a personal, practical & optimistic vision of a less-mechanized & less polluting world, one that works in harmony with nature, rather than against it. He goes on to document their life & struggles on the land in chapters on cows, pigs, vegetables & wild food in charming prose. More than fifty years on, The Fat of the Land remains an important & inspiring book, one which retains its power to make us think carefully about our own lives. This new edition comes complete with Sally Seymour`s original illustrations, a foreword by Anne Seymour & a new introduction by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall.