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A Shepherd's Life. W. H. Hudson
- Author: W. H. Hudson
- Date: 15 Dec 2010
- Publisher: Little Toller Books
- Original Languages: English
- Format: Paperback::256 pages, ePub
- ISBN10: 0956254578
- Country Wimborne Minster, United Kingdom
- File size: 12 Mb
- Filename: a-shepherd's-life.pdf
- Dimension: 156x 212x 22mm::408.23g
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James Rebanks The Shepherd's Life:A Tale of the Lake District read book short summary. Visit Today. Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd A surprising strand in the book – surprising if you’re inclined to stereotype “working men” or “sheep farmers” – emerges when the writer goes to study at Oxford. When he was younger, he excelled in pub quizzes and had become a book-lover after chancing on WH Hudson’s A Shepherd’s Life. I was drawn into reading this book a favourable reference in James Rebank's The Shepherd's Life. Rebanks's wrote that reading Hudson's A Shepherd's Life "the sudden life-changing realization it gave me that we could be in books – great books", it "turned me into a book obsessive". A vivid, honest, unforgettably written account not just of one shepherd's year, but of an ancient way of life.” —Lucy Dillon, author of LOST DOGS and LONELY HEARTS “THE SHEPHERD'S LIFE … The Shepherd's Life: A Tale of the Lake District is an autobiographical book James Rebanks, a sheep farmer from Matterdale, Cumbria, England, published Allen Lane in 2015. It was kismet that I found this marvelous book. Back in the spring I saw a positive review of The Shepherd's Life in one of the library journals that I read for work, and since I knew I was traveling to England in a few months, and that I wanted to read English books on the trip, I ordered a copy. The roots of Lake District sheep farming are almost as old as its hills. "A thousand years ago we were part of a Viking trading world," James Rebanks writes in The Shepherd's Life, his account of generations of his family, his neighbours and their flocks in the Cumbrian fells. The Shepherd's Life gives the finger to Wordsworth. James Rebanks seems never happier than when his hand is up a Herdwick sheep's arse, but his book is a superbly written ode to an ancient way of life, and brought back childhood summers in the Lake District when I didn't look hard enough (Nicholas Hytner, 'Books of the Year' Guardian) The Shepherd's Life - Are Ewe A Shepherd at Heart? Take our quiz and discover if you can tell your heft from your herd. One shepherd and his beloved Herdwick sheep. James Rebanks reflects on the worldwide response to The Shepherd's Life. James Rebanks: "People like us are married to the landscape Inspired partly W. H. Hudson’s classic account of rural life, “A Shepherd’s Life” (1910), his book is, at once, a memoir, a portrait of his family’s world and an evocative depiction of his vocation as a shepherd — work subject to the vagaries of weather and luck and based on generations-old knowledge of breeding and tending to sheep. THE SHEPHERD’S LIFE: MODERN DISPATCHES FROM AN ANCIENT LANDSCAPE James Rebanks is a stunning book. I couldn’t put it down (and not only because I raise sheep myself). What I do - on a tiny hob farm in Maine, USA - is not even remotely comparable to Mr. …
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