The Shepherd's Life - A Tale of the Lake District

Informationen zum Autor James Rebanks is a farmer based in the Lake District, where his family have lived and worked for over six hundred years. His No.1 bestselling debut, The Shepherd's Life , won the Lake District Book of the Year, was shortlisted for the Wainwright and Ondaatje prizes, and has been translated into sixteen languages. His second book, English Pastoral , was also a Top Ten bestseller and was named the Sunday Times Nature Book of the Year. Heralded as a 'masterpiece' by the New Statesman , it was shortlisted for the Ondaatje prize, and longlisted for the Rathbones Folio prize and the Orwell Prize for Political Writing. Klappentext James Rebanks is a shepherd based in the Lake District. His first book, The Shepherd's Life , won The Lakeland Book of the Year 2015 and was shortlisted for both The Wainwright Prize and the Ondaatje Prize. Also known as the Herdwick Shepherd, his Twitter account of daily life in the Lakes has a strong international following. His family have lived and farmed in the Lake District for six hundred years. Zusammenfassung Some people's lives are entirely their own creations. James Rebanks' isn't. The first son of a shepherd, who was the first son of a shepherd himself, he and his family have lived and worked in and around the Lake District for generations. Their way of life is ordered by the seasons and the work they demand, and has been for hundreds of years.

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Two pages into The Shepherd's Life, I was gripped. Twenty pages in, I was amazed. By its end, I knew I'd read an extraordinary book, at once political and beautiful - a major addition to the modern British literature of landscape, that can stand alongside Ronald Blythe's classic Akenfield as a portrait of a place and its people as seen from within Robert Macfarlane

Product details

• Authors: James Rebanks, Rebanks James
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.03.2016
• EAN: 9780141979366
• ISBN: 978-0-14-197936-6
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Memoirs, NATURE / Animals / Mammals, NATURE / Regional, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Agriculture & Food, The countryside, country life: general interest, Farm & working animals, The countryside, country life, Agriculture and farming, AGRICULTURE & FARMING, Farm and working animals: general interest, The Lake District, Cumbria & Lake District