I am the luckiest man alive, because I get to live and work in the most beautiful place on earth- Matterdale in the English Lake District.
James Rebanks is the Herdwick Shepherd, whose account of shepherding has a strong following on Twitter. His family have farmed in the same area for six hundred years.
Combines excellent photography with more life-writings
*Independent*
[Praise for The Shepherd's Life]: Affectionate, evocative,
illuminating. A story of survival - of a flock, a landscape and a
disappearing way of life. I love this book
*Nigel Slater, author of Toast and The Kitchen Diaries*
A powerful - and quietly electrifying - meditation... Page by page,
he builds what amounts to a 21st-century pastoral manifesto. The
book is an unsentimental education, part history of farming in the
Lake District, part personal memoir. And yet it still soars...
Rebanks's prose is beautifully sure-footed
*Sunday Times*
Rebanks's enthusiasm and talent for poetic writing is infectious...
[His] words create not only a gorgeous landscape painting of the
Lake District and its inhabitants, human, animal, bird and fish,
but also a useful social document... What is most striking about
this book is its authenticity; this is the real thing
*The Times*
A wonderfully detailed and candid account of a life that is both
individual and typical of this role in rural society... told with
perfect pitch, in prose that flows as easily as speech, cleaves
hungrily to the particular, and shifts without strain between the
workaday and the imaginative
*Guardian*
An enlightening, exquisitely written account... I was beguiled by
this book, an eloquent love-letter to a cherished way of life
*Daily Mail*
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