English Pastoral: An Inheritance - The Sunday Times bestseller from the author of The Shepherd's Life
Autor James Rebanksen Limba Engleză Paperback – sep 2021
THE SUNDAY TIMES NATURE BOOK OF THE YEAR
The new bestseller from the author of The Shepherd's Life
'A beautifully written story of a family, a home and a changing landscape' Nigel Slater
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 recognisable. 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.
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.
'A heartfelt book and one that dares to hope' Alan Bennett
'A wonder of a book, fierce, tender, and beautiful' Helen Macdonald
Winner of the Wainwright Prize
Winner of the Fortnum & Mason Food Book of the Year
Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize
Shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize
Longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780141982571
ISBN-10: 0141982578
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0141982578
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
James
Rebanksis
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
theSunday
TimesNature
Book
of
the
Year.
Heralded
as
a
'masterpiece'
by
theNew
Statesman,
it
was
shortlisted
for
the
Ondaatje
prize,
and
longlisted
for
the
Rathbones
Folio
prize
and
the
Orwell
Prize
for
Political
Writing.
Recenzii
Remarkable...A
brilliant,
beautiful
book...Eloquent,
persuasive
and
electric
with
the
urgency
that
comes
out
of
love
It is a book full of love: of his grandfather, of his children and of the Lake District valley where he lives and farms ... Some books change our world. I hope this turns out to be one of them.
A beautifully written story of a family, a home and a changing landscape.
James Rebanks'sEnglish Pastoraldeserves to be called a masterpiece. Four generations of his family building on centuries of their farming in the Cumbrian Fells gives us a poetic, practical, raw and almost miraculously detailed picture of this ancient way of life struggling to survive and to be reborn. This wonderful book was waiting to be written.
Powerful, important and deserves every accolade.
One of the most important books of our time.Told with humility and grace, this story of farming over three generations - where we went wrong and how we can change our ways - will be our land's salvation.
What a terrific book:vivid and impassioned and urgent--and, in both its alarm and its awe for the natural world, deeply convincing. Rebanks leaves no doubt that the question of how to farm is a question of human survival on this hard-used planet.He should be read by everyone who grows food, and by everyone who eats it
James Rebanks's story of his family's farm is just about perfect. It belongs with the finest writing of its kind
Ambitious, accomplished ... Rebanks is eloquent - scenes of mud and guts are interspersed with quotes ranging from Virgil to Schumpeter, Rachel Carson to Wendell Berry ...English Pastoralbuilds into a heartfelt elegy for all that has been lost from our landscape, and a rousing disquisition on what could be regained - a rallying cry for a better future.
Heartfelt, rich with detail ... James Rebanks writes with his heart, and his heart is in the right place. We should listen to him.
Marvellous and moving
It moved me to tears, made me feelexcitedandoptimistic, and said, so eloquently and succinctly, all the things I've been thinking and feeling ... It is not just a beautiful book to read, but soimportantand sotimely. A wonderful, thought-provoking,heartliftingread.
Rapturous ... For Rebanks writing and farming have proved complementary: while working long hours on the land he has produced a book in a pastoral tradition that runs from Virgil to Wendell Berry
I have never met anyone so roaringly, joyously in context and content as James Rebanks, belting around his farm in the rain ... The story of Rebanks and his family is the story of what farming has been in Britain but, also, the story of what it could become
Perfectly judged, it made me cry (twice) and left me with a new understanding of agriculture, and a real sense of hope.
Wonderful... I can't imagine anyone starting to readEnglish Pastoraland not being eager to read it all at once, as I did
A heartfelt book and one that dares to hope.
A home-grownGeorgicsfor the twenty-first century
A wonderful and timely account of one farmer's lifelong effort to do right by his family, his land, his animals and his ecosystem
A book of toil and beauty, rooted in a fell farm in the Lake District ...English Pastoralis a nuanced, hopeful, honest story. It is essential reading.
The power ofEnglish Pastorallies not just in thepassionandeloquenceof its prose or theclarityof its argument. It carries the authority of one who has not just thought about these problems, but lived them. It is a timely and important book.
Beautiful and shocking, but ultimately so gloriously hopeful.The book we should all read as we emerge from this latest strangeness.
I can't remember a book I've wanted to press into people's hands more this year than this resonant, immensely thoughtful look back at three generations of a farming family ... Managing to cram the whole modern history of British farming and nature into 270 beautifully written pages, this is a gem that's moving and immensely informative.
A rare and urgent book... Its beauty is not only in the writing but in what is behind it: a gentle and wise sensibility that is alive to the human love affair with the land and yet also intimately cognisant of our collective and systematic cruelty towards it.
I think, genuinely, this is the best book I've read this year, andone of the most important booksof recent years. It is about food and farming, and how we eat what we eat. It's aboutprogressandnostalgia, without being prideful or mawkish, it's about families and tradition, and the passing of time. It made me simultaneously proud to be British, and sad for what we have become, buthopefulthat we can change.
James Rebankscombines the descriptive powers of a great novelist with the pragmatic wisdom of a farmer who has watched his world transformed.This is a profound and beautiful book about the land, and how we should live off it.
Through the eyes of James Rebanks as a grandson, son, and then father, we witness the tragic decline of traditional agriculture, and glimpse what we must now do to make it right again.As an evocation of British landscape past and present, it's up there withCider With Rosie.
A beautiful and important book.
English Pastoralis a work of art. It isnourishing and groundingto read ...this brave and beautiful book will shape hearts and minds.
A wonderful, humane book told through the eyes of a man who has watched much vanish from his land, and now wants to put it back ...Moving and illuminating.
James Rebanks describes the life of a Lakeland working farmer from the inside with a unrivalled truth and eloquence
Vivid, accessible, inspiring - a story about one man's emerging land ethic, and an appreciation of the old ways in modern times. A vital book for anybody who eats
James Rebanks is a beautiful writer, in a unique position to describe the challenges currently being faced by farmers throughout the world.English Pastoralis a joy to read and extremely moving - a book which should be read by every citizen.
Farming, unlike almost any other job, is bound up in a series of complex ropes that Rebanks captures in his own story so beautifully: family pressure and loyalty, ego, loneliness, and a special kind of peer pressure...English Pastoralis going to be the most important book published about our countryside in decades, if not a generation
A deeply personal account by a farmer of what has happened to farming in Britain. Everyone interested in food should read this compelling, informative, moving book
Rebanks is a rare find indeed: a Lake District farmer whose family have worked the land for 600 years, with a passion to save the countryside and an elegant prose style to engage even the most urban reader. He's refreshingly realistic about how farmed and wild landscapes can coexist and technology can be tamed. A story for us all.
Moving, thought-provoking and beautifully written.
English Pastoralis one of the mostcaptivatingmemoirs of recent years ...The traditional pastoral is about retreat into an imagined rural idyll, but this confronts very real environmental dilemmas. Like the best books, it gives you hope and new energy.
James Rebanks has asharpeye and alyricalheart. His book isdevastating, charting the murderous and unsustainable revolution in modern farming ... But it is alsouplifting: Rebanks is determined to hang on to his Herdwicks, to keep producing food, and to bring back the curlews and butterflies and the soil fertility to his beloved fields.Truly a significant book for our time.
Lyrical and illuminating ...will fascinate city-dwellers and country-lovers alike.
A lyrical account of Rebanks' childhood on the Lake District farm that he's made famous; an account of how he learned about stockmanship and community and the rhythms of the land from his father and grandfather. [...] His writing is properly Romantic, which is a high compliment [...] Rebanks is obviously a wonderful human as well as a splendid writer.
A lament for lost traditions, a celebration of a way of living and a reminder that nature is 'finite and breakable.' Mr. Rebanks hits all the right notes and deserves to be heard
It is a book full of love: of his grandfather, of his children and of the Lake District valley where he lives and farms ... Some books change our world. I hope this turns out to be one of them.
A beautifully written story of a family, a home and a changing landscape.
James Rebanks'sEnglish Pastoraldeserves to be called a masterpiece. Four generations of his family building on centuries of their farming in the Cumbrian Fells gives us a poetic, practical, raw and almost miraculously detailed picture of this ancient way of life struggling to survive and to be reborn. This wonderful book was waiting to be written.
Powerful, important and deserves every accolade.
One of the most important books of our time.Told with humility and grace, this story of farming over three generations - where we went wrong and how we can change our ways - will be our land's salvation.
What a terrific book:vivid and impassioned and urgent--and, in both its alarm and its awe for the natural world, deeply convincing. Rebanks leaves no doubt that the question of how to farm is a question of human survival on this hard-used planet.He should be read by everyone who grows food, and by everyone who eats it
James Rebanks's story of his family's farm is just about perfect. It belongs with the finest writing of its kind
Ambitious, accomplished ... Rebanks is eloquent - scenes of mud and guts are interspersed with quotes ranging from Virgil to Schumpeter, Rachel Carson to Wendell Berry ...English Pastoralbuilds into a heartfelt elegy for all that has been lost from our landscape, and a rousing disquisition on what could be regained - a rallying cry for a better future.
Heartfelt, rich with detail ... James Rebanks writes with his heart, and his heart is in the right place. We should listen to him.
Marvellous and moving
It moved me to tears, made me feelexcitedandoptimistic, and said, so eloquently and succinctly, all the things I've been thinking and feeling ... It is not just a beautiful book to read, but soimportantand sotimely. A wonderful, thought-provoking,heartliftingread.
Rapturous ... For Rebanks writing and farming have proved complementary: while working long hours on the land he has produced a book in a pastoral tradition that runs from Virgil to Wendell Berry
I have never met anyone so roaringly, joyously in context and content as James Rebanks, belting around his farm in the rain ... The story of Rebanks and his family is the story of what farming has been in Britain but, also, the story of what it could become
Perfectly judged, it made me cry (twice) and left me with a new understanding of agriculture, and a real sense of hope.
Wonderful... I can't imagine anyone starting to readEnglish Pastoraland not being eager to read it all at once, as I did
A heartfelt book and one that dares to hope.
A home-grownGeorgicsfor the twenty-first century
A wonderful and timely account of one farmer's lifelong effort to do right by his family, his land, his animals and his ecosystem
A book of toil and beauty, rooted in a fell farm in the Lake District ...English Pastoralis a nuanced, hopeful, honest story. It is essential reading.
The power ofEnglish Pastorallies not just in thepassionandeloquenceof its prose or theclarityof its argument. It carries the authority of one who has not just thought about these problems, but lived them. It is a timely and important book.
Beautiful and shocking, but ultimately so gloriously hopeful.The book we should all read as we emerge from this latest strangeness.
I can't remember a book I've wanted to press into people's hands more this year than this resonant, immensely thoughtful look back at three generations of a farming family ... Managing to cram the whole modern history of British farming and nature into 270 beautifully written pages, this is a gem that's moving and immensely informative.
A rare and urgent book... Its beauty is not only in the writing but in what is behind it: a gentle and wise sensibility that is alive to the human love affair with the land and yet also intimately cognisant of our collective and systematic cruelty towards it.
I think, genuinely, this is the best book I've read this year, andone of the most important booksof recent years. It is about food and farming, and how we eat what we eat. It's aboutprogressandnostalgia, without being prideful or mawkish, it's about families and tradition, and the passing of time. It made me simultaneously proud to be British, and sad for what we have become, buthopefulthat we can change.
James Rebankscombines the descriptive powers of a great novelist with the pragmatic wisdom of a farmer who has watched his world transformed.This is a profound and beautiful book about the land, and how we should live off it.
Through the eyes of James Rebanks as a grandson, son, and then father, we witness the tragic decline of traditional agriculture, and glimpse what we must now do to make it right again.As an evocation of British landscape past and present, it's up there withCider With Rosie.
A beautiful and important book.
English Pastoralis a work of art. It isnourishing and groundingto read ...this brave and beautiful book will shape hearts and minds.
A wonderful, humane book told through the eyes of a man who has watched much vanish from his land, and now wants to put it back ...Moving and illuminating.
James Rebanks describes the life of a Lakeland working farmer from the inside with a unrivalled truth and eloquence
Vivid, accessible, inspiring - a story about one man's emerging land ethic, and an appreciation of the old ways in modern times. A vital book for anybody who eats
James Rebanks is a beautiful writer, in a unique position to describe the challenges currently being faced by farmers throughout the world.English Pastoralis a joy to read and extremely moving - a book which should be read by every citizen.
Farming, unlike almost any other job, is bound up in a series of complex ropes that Rebanks captures in his own story so beautifully: family pressure and loyalty, ego, loneliness, and a special kind of peer pressure...English Pastoralis going to be the most important book published about our countryside in decades, if not a generation
A deeply personal account by a farmer of what has happened to farming in Britain. Everyone interested in food should read this compelling, informative, moving book
Rebanks is a rare find indeed: a Lake District farmer whose family have worked the land for 600 years, with a passion to save the countryside and an elegant prose style to engage even the most urban reader. He's refreshingly realistic about how farmed and wild landscapes can coexist and technology can be tamed. A story for us all.
Moving, thought-provoking and beautifully written.
English Pastoralis one of the mostcaptivatingmemoirs of recent years ...The traditional pastoral is about retreat into an imagined rural idyll, but this confronts very real environmental dilemmas. Like the best books, it gives you hope and new energy.
James Rebanks has asharpeye and alyricalheart. His book isdevastating, charting the murderous and unsustainable revolution in modern farming ... But it is alsouplifting: Rebanks is determined to hang on to his Herdwicks, to keep producing food, and to bring back the curlews and butterflies and the soil fertility to his beloved fields.Truly a significant book for our time.
Lyrical and illuminating ...will fascinate city-dwellers and country-lovers alike.
A lyrical account of Rebanks' childhood on the Lake District farm that he's made famous; an account of how he learned about stockmanship and community and the rhythms of the land from his father and grandfather. [...] His writing is properly Romantic, which is a high compliment [...] Rebanks is obviously a wonderful human as well as a splendid writer.
A lament for lost traditions, a celebration of a way of living and a reminder that nature is 'finite and breakable.' Mr. Rebanks hits all the right notes and deserves to be heard