The New York Times bestseller and International Phenomenon One of the Top Ten Books of 2015, Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times. - Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times Some people\'s liv.
Hugely compelling.
A book about continuity and roots and a sense of belonging in an age that\'s increasingly about mobility and self-invention. - Helen Macdonald, New York Times bestselling author of H IS FOR HAWK Captivating...
It\'s bloody marvelous.
The New York Times bestseller and International Phenomenon One of the Top Ten Books of 2015, Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times.
This is the story of someone trying desperately hard to stay.
Many memoirs are of people working desperately hard to leave a place.
It is a story of working lives, the people around him, his childhood, his parents and grandparents, a people who exist and endure even as the culture - of the Lake District, and of farming - changes around them.
In evocative and lucid prose, James Rebanks takes us through a shepherd\'s year, offering a unique account of rural life and a fundamental connection with the land that most of us have lost.
The Shepherd\'s Life the story of a deep-rooted attachment to place, Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape that describe a way of life that is little noticed and yet has profoundly shaped the Landscape over time.
It hasn\'t changed for hundreds of years: sending the sheep to the fells in the summer and making the hay; the autumn fairs where the flocks are replenished; the grueling toil of winter when the sheep must be kept alive, and the light-headedness that comes with spring, as the lambs are born and the sheep get ready to return to the hills and valleys.
His way of life is ordered by the seasons and the work they demand.
But James\' world is quite different.
It\'s a part of the world known mainly for its romantic descriptions by Wordsworth and the much loved illustrated children\'s books of Beatrix Potter.
The first son of a shepherd, who was the first son of a shepherd himself, his family have lived and worked in the Lake District of Northern England for generations, further back than recorded history.
James Rebanks\' isn\'t. - Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times Some people\'s lives are entirely their own creations.
Hugely compelling.
A book about continuity and roots and a sense of belonging in an age that\'s increasingly about mobility and self-invention. - Helen Macdonald, New York Times bestselling author of H IS FOR HAWK Captivating...
It\'s bloody marvelous.
The New York Times bestseller and International Phenomenon One of the Top Ten Books of 2015, Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
