The Shepherd's Life: A Tale of the Lake District
Autor James Rebanksen Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 mar 2016
'Affectionate, evocative, illuminating. A story of survival - of a flock, a landscape and a disappearing way of life. I love this book' Nigel Slater
'Triumphant, a pastoral for the 21st century' Helen Davies,Sunday Times,Books of the Year
'The nature publishing sensation of the year, unsentimental yet luminous' Melissa Harrison,The Times,Books of the Year
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. A Viking would understand the work they do: sending the sheep to the fells in the summer and making the hay; the autumn fairs where the flocks are replenished; the gruelling 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 fells.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780141979366
ISBN-10: 0141979364
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0141979364
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Notă biografică
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.
Recenzii
Two
pages
intoThe
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
classicAkenfieldas
a
portrait
of
a
place
and
its
people
as
seen
from
within
A very good book
Affectionate, evocative, illuminating. A story of survival - of a flock, a landscape and a disappearing way of life. I love this book
Bloody marvellous
A powerful - and quietly electrifying - meditation... Page by page, he builds what amounts to a 21st-century pastoral manifesto. The book is an unsentimental education, part history of farming in the Lake District, part personal memoir. And yet it still soars... Rebanks's prose is beautifully sure-footed
A remarkable achievement... Utterly unsentimental,The Shepherd's Lifeis, nevertheless, profoundly moving... The human values that imbueThe Shepherd's Lifeare, perhaps, ones that Britain, disillusioned and scandal weary, could do with being reminded of right now
Rebanks's enthusiasm and talent for poetic writing is infectious... [His] words create not only a gorgeous landscape painting of the Lake District and its inhabitants, human, animal, bird and fish, but also a useful social document... What is most striking about this book is its authenticity; this is the real thing
A wonderfully detailed and candid account of a life that is both individual and typical of this role in rural society... told with perfect pitch, in prose that flows as easily as speech, cleaves hungrily to the particular, and shifts without strain between the workaday and the imaginative
Absorbing, often funny, and beautifully written... a testament to the importance of maintaining a connection to the land
Captivating... A book about continuity and roots and a sense of belonging in an age that's increasingly about mobility and self-invention. Hugely compelling
Exceptional... Rebanks's way with words is akin to that of that of an expert shearer with the clippers - swift, deft, skilled - and the resulting prose is lean, vivid, tough and handsome. I loved his book. It is one to restore faith in writing and the business of publishing - a story not like any other, told from the inside by someone whose passion for his subject lights up almost every sentence
An unforgettable survivor's book that raises important questions, not least about education... one of the most truthful depictions of contemporary rural life that I have read
More than a tribute to a rare and doughty tribe. If hills could speak, this is surely a tale the fells would tell
An enlightening, exquisitely written account... I was beguiled by this book, an eloquent love-letter to a cherished way of life
May well do for sheep what Helen Macdonald did for hawks
Punchy, well-read and occasionally lyrical... a glorious book, alive with the author's voice, which is strong and individual, as befits a man who makes a living in this ancient but precarious way. Most striking is its honesty
Rebanks offers a fascinating account of his life in farming that is in equal parts memoir, social commentary and procedural. Even for the most committed urbanite, it's a brilliant read
James Rebanks's unsentimental, sharply detailed memoir about his life as a shepherd gripped me from the first page
A timely and important book, with flashes of beauty in its spare and honest prose
In James Rebanks we hear a new voice from the fells. The toil and the beauty inThe Shepherd's Lifeare utterly compelling
A vivid, honest, unforgettably written account not just of one shepherd's year, but of an ancient way of life
The Shepherd's Lifeis a reader's delight. No tourist wandering the iconic Lake District is Rebanks; coming from centuries of farmers he is as 'hefted' to the fells as the Herdwick sheep he keeps. He lives, breathes and works his landscape - which gives him an inside edge as sharp as shears over most of the flock of current countryside-writers. Rebanks has written a marvellous autobiography - of himself, his family, and the hills themselves. For they are indivisible
What came through was the stolid humility, gentle stubbornness and genuine care you need to live this life. Many books are written about a thing but this book isofa thing and is valuable for it
The Shepherd's Lifeis that rare thing, a well-written book about the life of the land by a man who gets his living from the land. It's a paean for a peopled landscape, and a powerful counterblast to the doleful environmentalism that would empty our land of its people
Beautifully written
Irreverent, honest, achingly beautiful and totally authentic. Rebanks challenges us to understand what would be lost if no one remembers the seasons of a shepherd's life or the culture of sheep farming. His joy is as contagious as his writing
Truly extraordinary... written with a mastery of vivid, concrete detail that makes you gasp
A wonderful book which will surely become a Lake District classic. Powerfully written and unflinchingly honest, it provides a vivid insight into the realities of hill farming life
A gorgeous book, unsentimental but exultant, vivid and profound, and a fierce defense of small-scale farming
A beautifully told tale suffused by a profound sense of belonging and a clear-eyed love of the land and its people.
His prose is earthed and conversational; it feels as if you're leaning over a gate, listening to his ruminations. The book exudes tough passion, and a sense of belonging and love that holds you rapt to the very last line
A very good book
Affectionate, evocative, illuminating. A story of survival - of a flock, a landscape and a disappearing way of life. I love this book
Bloody marvellous
A powerful - and quietly electrifying - meditation... Page by page, he builds what amounts to a 21st-century pastoral manifesto. The book is an unsentimental education, part history of farming in the Lake District, part personal memoir. And yet it still soars... Rebanks's prose is beautifully sure-footed
A remarkable achievement... Utterly unsentimental,The Shepherd's Lifeis, nevertheless, profoundly moving... The human values that imbueThe Shepherd's Lifeare, perhaps, ones that Britain, disillusioned and scandal weary, could do with being reminded of right now
Rebanks's enthusiasm and talent for poetic writing is infectious... [His] words create not only a gorgeous landscape painting of the Lake District and its inhabitants, human, animal, bird and fish, but also a useful social document... What is most striking about this book is its authenticity; this is the real thing
A wonderfully detailed and candid account of a life that is both individual and typical of this role in rural society... told with perfect pitch, in prose that flows as easily as speech, cleaves hungrily to the particular, and shifts without strain between the workaday and the imaginative
Absorbing, often funny, and beautifully written... a testament to the importance of maintaining a connection to the land
Captivating... A book about continuity and roots and a sense of belonging in an age that's increasingly about mobility and self-invention. Hugely compelling
Exceptional... Rebanks's way with words is akin to that of that of an expert shearer with the clippers - swift, deft, skilled - and the resulting prose is lean, vivid, tough and handsome. I loved his book. It is one to restore faith in writing and the business of publishing - a story not like any other, told from the inside by someone whose passion for his subject lights up almost every sentence
An unforgettable survivor's book that raises important questions, not least about education... one of the most truthful depictions of contemporary rural life that I have read
More than a tribute to a rare and doughty tribe. If hills could speak, this is surely a tale the fells would tell
An enlightening, exquisitely written account... I was beguiled by this book, an eloquent love-letter to a cherished way of life
May well do for sheep what Helen Macdonald did for hawks
Punchy, well-read and occasionally lyrical... a glorious book, alive with the author's voice, which is strong and individual, as befits a man who makes a living in this ancient but precarious way. Most striking is its honesty
Rebanks offers a fascinating account of his life in farming that is in equal parts memoir, social commentary and procedural. Even for the most committed urbanite, it's a brilliant read
James Rebanks's unsentimental, sharply detailed memoir about his life as a shepherd gripped me from the first page
A timely and important book, with flashes of beauty in its spare and honest prose
In James Rebanks we hear a new voice from the fells. The toil and the beauty inThe Shepherd's Lifeare utterly compelling
A vivid, honest, unforgettably written account not just of one shepherd's year, but of an ancient way of life
The Shepherd's Lifeis a reader's delight. No tourist wandering the iconic Lake District is Rebanks; coming from centuries of farmers he is as 'hefted' to the fells as the Herdwick sheep he keeps. He lives, breathes and works his landscape - which gives him an inside edge as sharp as shears over most of the flock of current countryside-writers. Rebanks has written a marvellous autobiography - of himself, his family, and the hills themselves. For they are indivisible
What came through was the stolid humility, gentle stubbornness and genuine care you need to live this life. Many books are written about a thing but this book isofa thing and is valuable for it
The Shepherd's Lifeis that rare thing, a well-written book about the life of the land by a man who gets his living from the land. It's a paean for a peopled landscape, and a powerful counterblast to the doleful environmentalism that would empty our land of its people
Beautifully written
Irreverent, honest, achingly beautiful and totally authentic. Rebanks challenges us to understand what would be lost if no one remembers the seasons of a shepherd's life or the culture of sheep farming. His joy is as contagious as his writing
Truly extraordinary... written with a mastery of vivid, concrete detail that makes you gasp
A wonderful book which will surely become a Lake District classic. Powerfully written and unflinchingly honest, it provides a vivid insight into the realities of hill farming life
A gorgeous book, unsentimental but exultant, vivid and profound, and a fierce defense of small-scale farming
A beautifully told tale suffused by a profound sense of belonging and a clear-eyed love of the land and its people.
His prose is earthed and conversational; it feels as if you're leaning over a gate, listening to his ruminations. The book exudes tough passion, and a sense of belonging and love that holds you rapt to the very last line