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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 familyā¦
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This too is a tale of three village generations grappling with historical change.
Here the story is about changing ideas of stewardship of the land, an enthralling account of farming ways in flux and of the intricate, back-breaking, and unpredictable work of restoring degraded farmland to health.
The Rebanks family run a hill-farm in a Lake District village. Rebanksā grandfather started with horse-ploughs. A tractor replaced the horses, yet he still knew the individual ways of every ewe and cow and farmed lightly on the land. But Rebanksā father, caught in market pressures, industrialized his farming methods.
Progress becameā¦
From Alexander's list on village lives as keys to history.
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