Scarecrows

 

   

 

Title: Scarecrows

Author: Gregory Holyoake

List price: £15.95

ISBN: 0 906290 83 X

Contents: This absorbing account of the origin and history of these strange but beguiling ‘figures in the landscape’, traces their part in art and literature through works by Shakespeare, Dickens and Agatha Christie to the adventures of Rupert Bear, Peter Rabbit and James Bond, to mention only a sample. Today, scarecrow festivals are gaining in popularity and scarecrow-making has become a folk art practised by amateur and professional alike.