"I first saw Dyffryn in a November gale," Thomas Firbank recalls. "The old house was quivering under the thrusts of the wind, and the wild, remote setting had already captured my fancy, and I will hold it till I die." So begins the remarkable story of a 21-year-old man who, with no experience in agriculture, visited a farm on a Welsh mountainside in 1931 and bought all 2400 acres along with its 3000 sheep. This enchanting memoir follows the labors and triumphs of the impulsive Thomas and his equally determined wife Esme as they struggle to establish the farm.