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Availability:Out of StockContributor:James RebanksPublish date:2021-08-03Pages:304
Language:EnglishPublisher:Mariner BooksISBN-13:9780063073272ISBN-10:63073277UPC:9780063073272Book Category:Social Science, NatureBook Subcategory:Agriculture & Food, Regional, Environmental Conservation & ProtectionAward:2022 ALA Notable Books Winner - Nonfiction AwardSize:8.52 x 5.79 x 1.14 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SC91SYF4VB

The acclaimed chronicle of the regeneration of one family's traditional English farm

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Winner of the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing * Named "Nature Book of the Year" by the Sunday Times * New York Times Editors' Choice * Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize and the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize * A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Sunday Times, Financial Times, New Statesman, Independent, Telegraph, Observer, and Daily Mail

"Superbly written and deeply insightful, the book captivates the reader until the journey's end." -- Wall Street Journal

The New York Times bestselling author of The Shepherd's Life profiles his family's farm across three generations, revealing through this intimate lens the profound global transformation of agriculture and of the human relationship to the land.

As a boy, James Rebanks's grandfather taught him 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 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 of birds and their wind-blown song.

Hailed as "a brilliant, beautiful book" by the Sunday Times (London), Pastoral Song (published in the United Kingdom under the title English Pastoral) is the story of an inheritance: one that affects us all. It tells of how rural landscapes around the world were brought close to collapse, and the age-old rhythms of work, weather, community and wild things were lost. And yet this elegy from the northern fells is also a song of hope: of how, guided by the past, one farmer began to salvage a tiny corner of England that was now his, doing his best to restore the life that had vanished and to leave a legacy for the future.

This is a book about what it means to have love and pride in a place, and how, against all the odds, it may still be possible to build a new pastoral: not a utopia, but somewhere decent for us all.

[Published in the United Kingdom as English Pastoral.]

Language:EnglishPublisher:Mariner BooksISBN-13:9780063073272ISBN-10:63073277UPC:9780063073272Book Category:Social Science, NatureBook Subcategory:Agriculture & Food, Regional, Environmental Conservation & ProtectionAward:2022 ALA Notable Books Winner - Nonfiction AwardSize:8.52 x 5.79 x 1.14 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SC91SYF4VB
Rebanks, James: - "

James Rebanks runs a family-owned farm in the Lake District in northern England. A graduate of Oxford University, James works as an expert advisor to UNESCO on sustainable tourism. He uses his popular Twitter feed - @herdyshepherd1 - to share updates on the shepherding year. He is the author of The Shepherd's Life.

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Publisher: Mariner Books

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🏆 2022 ALA Notable Books Winner - Nonfiction Award

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James Rebanks

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