When James Rebanks was a child, he used to help his father and grandfather on their farms in the hilly Lake District of England. Fields of barley, hay and oats; some sheep, some cows, some pigs; a ...
English pastoral literature once consisted of imitations of the idyllic, bucolic poetry of Theocritus and Virgil. Later practitioners, from the Romantics to John Clare, George Eliot and Thomas Hardy, ...
When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Kristin Kimball PASTORAL SONG A Farmer’s Journey By James Rebanks Far too little of the ink ...
I have done my fair share of farming, at least for someone in his early 20s who lives in a city. The first time I worked in agriculture was the summer after my junior year of high school, when I ...
When James Rebanks was a child, he used to help his father and grandfather on their farms in the hilly Lake District of England. Fields of barley, hay and oats; some sheep, some cows, some pigs; a ...
Best-selling author James Rebanks has been called England’s most famous farmer. His latest book, “Pastoral Song,” is a love story dedicated to the land his family has farmed for generations. It's also ...
Rebanks runs a family-owned farm in the Lake District in northern England. A graduate of Oxford University, James' new book is Pastoral Song: A Farmer's Journey For much of my early life America meant ...
English farmer James Rebanks is famous for his books about restoring the health of his Lake Country farm (“Pastoral Song,” “The Shepherd’s Life”). In his third memoir, it is his own health that needs ...