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Robert Simper’s home has always been in Suffolk. He was born in Blaxhall, grew up in Bawdsey and has lived most of his life in Ramsholt. He led a conventional farming life until he had a bad back injury and turned to writing as well as farming and sailing. He is best known for his series of books about the rivers on the East Coast of England, but has written extensively on traditional work boats all over the workld and in 2010 the World Ship Trust awarded him a citation ‘for many years of helping to record and rpreserve so much of the country’s vintage sailing craft’.
In The Best Crop, he records the long battle his family farming business has had to keep in existence, from dodging bullets as a child when a Messerschmitt 109 strafed the farmhouse in Bawdsey, through the floods of 1953, mechanisation and the introduction of the combine harvester, to diversification into property development and finally shell fishing. This is a story of the entrepreneurial nature that farmers and small business people needed to survive the changes in society and technology during the latter half of the twentieth century.
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