James Rebanks
Autor de The Shepherd's Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape
Sobre El Autor
Créditos de la imagen: James Rebanks
Obras de James Rebanks
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1974
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- UK
- Lugares de residencia
- Cumbria, England, UK
- Educación
- University of Oxford
- Ocupaciones
- farmer
shepherd - Relaciones
- Rebanks, Helen (wife)
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- Obras
- 4
- Miembros
- 1,491
- Popularidad
- #17,230
- Valoración
- 4.1
- Reseñas
- 48
- ISBNs
- 61
- Idiomas
- 9
Anyway, this book is also about relationships -- between Rebanks and his grandfather, father, community, land, animals. I love where his observations and thoughts have taken him. I found his arguments for the rewilding of cultivated land compelling -- that farming is meant to be part of the natural web and is also always going to be a compromise as we struggle with burgeoning populations and the demand for cheap food. Still, he is developing his land to incorporate more biodiversity, to encourage the natural run of rivers, to restore hedges and wetlands. It's a beautiful thing, and somehow having the crushing amount of constant work to balance against his wife's point of view explains a lot. They work as a team to nurture different part of their lives. I am so inspired by this book to try and understand and nurture the small land that is in my care. It's a powerful message, and I hope that many farmers see and embrace it as well in whatever capacity they can.… (más)