The Shepherd's Life - James Rebanks
Mar. 12th, 2018 01:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cybermuleRobust book about a modern day shepherd in the Lake District. It unfolds his life from being a kid helping his Dad on the farms, through almost accidentally going to Oxford and then back to the Lake District. Really enjoyable read - the author's actually only around my age, but it seems older. And then again timeless, as this is a thing that's not really changed in years.
What I really liked about this book is it's warmth, but also its humour and irreverence. There've been a good number of modern nature books and rural elegies, and I love them. But they can be a bit pretentious at times, and often smack of incomer-ness. This doesn't do that. It has poo and swearing in it, but a deep and nearly religious love for the place.
Don't need to read it again, or own it. But would happily buy it for someone who had some sort of vested interest in the area. Or sheep. Or just as a warmhearted read.
What I really liked about this book is it's warmth, but also its humour and irreverence. There've been a good number of modern nature books and rural elegies, and I love them. But they can be a bit pretentious at times, and often smack of incomer-ness. This doesn't do that. It has poo and swearing in it, but a deep and nearly religious love for the place.
Don't need to read it again, or own it. But would happily buy it for someone who had some sort of vested interest in the area. Or sheep. Or just as a warmhearted read.
