James Rebanks
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James Rebanks takes us through a shepherd's year, offering a unique account of rural life and a fundamental connection with the land. It is a story of working lives, family, neighbors, the English Lake District, and farming -- and of trying to exist and endure even as the surrounding culture changes.
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"As a boy, James Rebanks was taught by his grandfather to work the land the old way. Their family farm in England's Lake District hills was part of an ancient agricultural landscape: a patchwork of crops and meadows, of pastures grazed by livestock, and of hedgerows teeming with wildlife. The men and women had vanished from the fields;; the old stone barns had crumbled; the skies have emptied of birds and their windblown song. Hailed as a "brilliant,...
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English
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Description
As a boy, James Rebanks's grandfather taught him to work the land the old way. Their family farm in the Lake District hills was part of an ancient agricultural landscape: a patchwork of crops and meadows, of pastures grazed with livestock, and hedgerows teeming with wildlife. And yet, by the time James inherited the farm, it was barely recognizable. The men and women had vanished from the fields; the old stone barns had crumbled; the skies had emptied...