Rebanks James - Pastoral Song A Farmer's Journey - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: 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.
Title: Pastoral Song A Farmer's Journey
Author(s): Rebanks James
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780063073272
Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 8/3/2021