The Shepherd's Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape. Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.
16.592 Bewertungen von Goodreads
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Doubleday Canada, 2015
- Hardcover
- Gebraucht
Anbieter: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, USAThriftBooks-Atlanta
Verkäufer/-in mit 5 Sternen
Verkäufer:in bei AbeBooks seit 24. März 2009
Nicht verfügbar
Hardcover
Zustand: Gebraucht - Ausreichend
EUR 7,25
Artikelbeschreibung des Verkäufers
Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers G0385682840I5N01
- Titel
- The Shepherd's Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape
- Autor
- James Rebanks
- Verlag
- Doubleday Canada
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2015
- Zustand
- Fair
- Schutzumschlag
- No Jacket
- Einband
- Hardcover
- Sprache
- Englisch
- ISBN-10
- 0385682840
- ISBN-13
- 9780385682848
- Artikelgewicht
- 1 Pfund
A major new talent redefines the literature of rural life.
Old world met new when a shepherd in the English Lake District impulsively started a Twitter account. A routine cell phone upgrade left author James Rebanks with a pretty decent camera and a pre-loaded Twitter app--the tools to share his way of life with the world. And what began as a tentative experiment became an international phenomenon.
James has worked the land for years, as did his father, and his father before him. His family has lived and farmed in the Lake District of Northern England as long as there have been written records (since 1420) and possibly much longer. And while the land itself has inspired great poets and authors we have rarely heard from the people who tend it. One Twitter account has changed all that, and now James Rebanks has broken free of the 140-character limit and produced "the book I have wanted to write my whole life." The Shepherd's Life is a memoir about growing up amidst a magical, storied landscape, of coming of age in the 1980s and 1990s among hills that seem timeless, and yet suffused with history. Broken into the four seasons, the book chronicles the author's daily experiences at work with his flock and brings alive his family and their ancient way of life, which at times can seem irreconcilable with the modern world.
An astonishing original work, The Shepherd's Life is an intimate look from inside a seemingly ordinary life, one that celebrates the meaning of place, the ties of family to the land around them, and the beauty of the past. It is the untold story of the Lake District, of a people who exist and endure out of sight in the midst of the most iconic literary landscape in the world.
Old world met new when a shepherd in the English Lake District impulsively started a Twitter account. A routine cell phone upgrade left author James Rebanks with a pretty decent camera and a pre-loaded Twitter app--the tools to share his way of life with the world. And what began as a tentative experiment became an international phenomenon.
James has worked the land for years, as did his father, and his father before him. His family has lived and farmed in the Lake District of Northern England as long as there have been written records (since 1420) and possibly much longer. And while the land itself has inspired great poets and authors we have rarely heard from the people who tend it. One Twitter account has changed all that, and now James Rebanks has broken free of the 140-character limit and produced "the book I have wanted to write my whole life." The Shepherd's Life is a memoir about growing up amidst a magical, storied landscape, of coming of age in the 1980s and 1990s among hills that seem timeless, and yet suffused with history. Broken into the four seasons, the book chronicles the author's daily experiences at work with his flock and brings alive his family and their ancient way of life, which at times can seem irreconcilable with the modern world.
An astonishing original work, The Shepherd's Life is an intimate look from inside a seemingly ordinary life, one that celebrates the meaning of place, the ties of family to the land around them, and the beauty of the past. It is the untold story of the Lake District, of a people who exist and endure out of sight in the midst of the most iconic literary landscape in the world.
„Inhaltsangabe“ gehört möglicherweise zu einer anderen Auflage dieses Titels.
Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor
JAMES REBANKS runs a family-owned farm in the Lake District in northern England. He uses his popular Twitter feed – @herdyshepherd1- to share updates on the shepherding year.
„Über diesen Titel“ gehört möglicherweise zu einer anderen Auflage dieses Titels.