The journey of an English hill farmer in the Lake district depicts what a really hard life farming can be especially when you are being squeezed out of existence by ever lower prices based on a false corporate narrative that the only way to feed the world is through an industrial approach that is prepared to sacrifice the land and all it's life forms and lead us to extinction. Witness his slow conversion from feeling that his father and grandfather were falling behind in the new revolution in agriculture that was happening all around them, to an appreciation of the harm that the industrial approach was creating. Rachael Carson's book allowed him to finally appreciate what was happening.