Sep 21, 2021
James Rebanks is the author of
the newly-released book Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey,
which recently won the 2021 Wainwright prize for UK Nature writing,
and best-seller The Shepherd's Life: Modern Dispatches
from an Ancient Landscape.
His books explore the experience of being a farmer from a
millennia-old farming tradition that was almost lost to
"improvement." Wonderfully written and highly readable, these
accounts of his life in the Lake District of Cumbria, England, give
us a lived sense of the promise of industrialism, the genuine
short-term gains, the nuances of what went wrong and why...and the
reality that there are no clear heroes and villains, but rather
it's a truly complex system that has to be managed for land and
human health if we want to survive.