Considered a classic at the time of its publication in 1910, *A Shepherd's Life* is a rare account of the lives of those who lived on and worked the land in nineteenth-century rural Britain. A masterful work of prose, W. H. Hudson focuses on the story of one man, a Wiltshire shepherd named Caleb Baw
A shepherd's life: modern dispatches from an ancient landscape
โ Scribed by James Rebanks
- Publisher
- Doubleday Canada
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 307 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0385682859
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โฆ Synopsis
A major new talent redefines the literature of rural life.
Old world met new when a shepherd in the English Lake District impulsively started a Twitter account. A routine cell phone upgrade left author James Rebanks with a pretty decent camera and a pre-loaded Twitter app--the tools to share his way of life with the world. And what began as a tentative experiment became an international phenomenon.
James has worked the land for years, as did his father, and his father before him. His family has lived and farmed in the Lake District of Northern England as long as there have been written records (since 1420) and possibly much longer. And while the land itself has inspired great poets and authors we have rarely heard from the people who tend it. One Twitter account has changed all that, and now James Rebanks has broken free of the 140-character limit and produced "the book I have wanted to write my whole life." A Shepherd's Life is a memoir about growing up...
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