English pastoral : an inheritance
(eAudiobook)
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Published
[Melbourne, Vic.] : Bolinda/Audible audio, 2021.
Edition
Unabridged ed.
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eAudiobook
Language
English
ISBN
9781867528401
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General Note
Downloadable eAudiobook.
General Note
Non fiction.
General Note
Duration: 07:25:45.
Participants/Performers
Read by Bryan Dick.
Description
James Rebanks was taught by his grandfather 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, that landscape had profoundly changed. 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 how the age-old rhythms of work, weather, community and wild things were lost. But 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 an audiobook about what it means to have love and pride in a place and how, against the odds, it may still be possible to build a new pastoral - not a utopia, but somewhere decent for us all.
Target Audience
Adult.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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