Brave New Victuals, An Inquiry Into Modern Food Production

by Elspeth Huxley

Hardcover, first edition, with unclipped dust jacket. Jacket is lightly edgeworn with tanning to inside upper edges. Tanning to endpapers and foxing to page block head. Previous owner's name/place penned to FEP. Boards excellent, pages clean and crisp. AD

168 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1965

About the author

Elspeth Joscelin Huxley was an English writer, journalist, broadcaster, magistrate, environmentalist, farmer, and government adviser. She wrote over 40 books, including her best-known lyrical books, The Flame Trees of Thika and The Mottled Lizard, based on her youth in a coffee farm in British Kenya. Her husband, Gervas Huxley, was a grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley and a cousin of Aldous Huxley.

Reviews

[Greg · Rating 4 out of 5]

Despite the passage of time, not much changes. This book was written in 1965 and foreshadows the problems that we are having today with industrial agriculture. How did she know? They were already having the problems in the 1960's.

A good, but somewhat sad read.