EAN: 9780141982571

ENGLISH PASTORAL - JAMES REBANKS KARTONIERT (TB)

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 Short listed for the Orwell Prize  Shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize  
Longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize

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