The Shepherd's Life, (Paperback)

from willszal

In the early 1800s, the New England landscape was dominated by sheep herding. To this day our forests are full of stone walls left over from this era, and Vermont still has a fair bit of pasture. This tradition has heavily influenced by immigrants from the Brittish Isles. In this book, James Reba...

from pennykaplan

Rebanks tells of his passion for sheep farming the old way in the Lake District on England as his family has done for centuries. His deep roots, intense sense of belong and way of life are increasingly challenged by modernity. All the details of sheep farming, and his passion is evident, but more...

from Fliss88

This was such a nice book to have with me on a recent holiday. James Rebanks is descended from shepherds, is very proud of his family history and takes great pleasure in sharing some of that history with his readers. A man closer to his grandfather than his father, the stories are all centered ar...

from Craiglea

I read this book with a great deal of interest - we don't often get the chance to read about farming from the horse's mouth so to speak. Often our view is coloured by old media representations of greedy farmers harvesting subsidies rather than crops. This book takes the reader through one year in...

from augustgarage

Copy received via Goodreads Giveaways (thanks!). A quick read (two days for me), that is worth the small investment of time. Having grown up on ranches, following my dad around feedlots, riding on horses, back-hoes, and swathers - but later leaving that life behind (and attending an elite liberal...