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English pastoral : an inheritance (Original 2020; 2020. Auflage)

von James Rebanks

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The acclaimed chronicle of the regeneration of one family's traditional English farm

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Winner of the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing * Named "Nature Book of the Year" by the Sunday Times * New York Times Editors' Choice * Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize and the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize * A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Sunday Times, Financial Times, New Statesman, Independent, Telegraph, Observer, and Daily Mail

"Superbly written and deeply insightful, the book captivates the reader until the journey's end." ?? Wall Street Journal

The New York Times bestselling author of The Shepherd's Life profiles his family's farm across three generations, revealing through this intimate lens the profound global transformation of agriculture and of the human relationship to the land.

As a boy, James Rebanks's grandfather taught him to work the land the old way. Their family farm in England's 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, it was barely recognizable. 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.

Hailed as "a brilliant, beautiful book" by the Sunday Times (London), Pastoral Song (published in the United Kingdom under the title 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 the age-old rhythms of work, weather, community and wild things were lost. And yet 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 a book about what it means to have love and pride in a place, and how, against all the odds, it may still be possible to build a new pastoral: not a utopia, but somewhere decent for us all.

[Published in the United Kingdom as English Pastoral.]… (mehr)

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Titel:English pastoral : an inheritance
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This was a fantastic memoir of living on the land in rural England. Rebanks draws a clear picture between the health (and heartache) of traditional framing methods and the harm industrial, modern farming has on the land and the people living on the land. He writes like James Herriot - personal stories that make it clear to the reader the love he has for his farm. ( )
  ohheybrian | Jan 20, 2024 |
Rebanks' view of the world was formed by his childhood on a modest traditional farm, and by the knowledge and attitudes he inherited from the prior generations of his family who worked the same land. It's both a hard and an idyllic life, and as a picture of childhood, truly charming. And he tells it with profound humility—or let's say that this life gave him a profound humility.

Alas, he had the misfortune to grow up in the second half of the 20th century, a period when traditional, mixed purpose family farms in Britain were being supplanted by big spreads, Big Ag, and big applications of chemicals and machinery that went quite far toward destroying the land, and that way of life.

If you've paid attention to the modern fate of farming in the U.S., and in many other countries, this will be familiar news. If you know a fair amount about it, his careful and detailed explication may seem boring and occasionally redundant. But in Rebanks, the realization of this destruction opens his mind to a way of carrying on based on repairing the broken ecology of the place. The details of this are vivid and place-specific: reviving the living hedgerows that not only delineated fields but provided wildlife habitat, renaturalizing streams and reestablising their verges, for flood control as well as habitat—all described in the finest-grained specifics of his particular property. It will always be a modest farm and a challenging way to make a living, but he, at least, ends up optimistic. ( )
1 abstimmen JonathanLerner | Feb 8, 2022 |
A thoroughly engaging memoir of the author's personal journey to becoming a proud inheritor of the family fell farm in England's Lake District, and his exploration of what that does--and ought--to mean in the 21st century. A cautiously optimistic assessment of how badly we have screwed up our relationship with the land and its other inhabitants in the quest to feed Earth's human population, and how we might change that. The US Midwest is Rebanks' ultimate paradigm for misguided land use, but UK commercial farming comes up smelling like acidic green muck as well. ( )
  laytonwoman3rd | Jan 30, 2022 |
ENGLISH PASTORAL : AN INHERITANCE is written by James Rebanks.
His previous books include THE SHEPHERD’S LIFE and THE ILLUSTRATED HERDWICK SHEPHERD.
James Rebanks is a farmer in the Lake District of England, where his family has lived and worked for over 6oo years. His writing is very descriptive, historical, emotional and very lyrical.
ENGLISH PASTORAL has been described as “beautiful and shocking”; “a beautifully written story of a family, a home and a changing landscape”; “told with humility and grace, this story of farming over three generations will be our land’s salvation’.

As a shepherdess and farmer by desire, but not by practicality and trade, I have read many ecological and farming-related books. This one is so personal, so beautifully and lovingly written - it is head over heels above all the rest.
ENGLISH PASTORAL is many things:
It is a memoir; a family history; a naturalist’s diary; very emotional; aspirational; interesting.
It is ‘rough’ at times, speaking of hardship and confusion; a science textbook at times; very practical.
It is an ode to the writings of Wendell Berry, Jane Jacobs and of course, Rachel Carson.

I would give this book 100 stars if I could. ***** ( )
  diana.hauser | Jan 9, 2022 |
In 3 sections, Rebanks takes us through his family's ownership of the family farm in the Lake District of England. He tells about the type of traditional farmer his grandfather was, how things were upended post WWII with increased industrialization of farms, and how he has slowly evolved his farm to become a more naturalized setting, while still trying to make a profit. ( )
  peggybr | Dec 23, 2021 |
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History. Nature. Sociology. Nonfiction. HTML:

The acclaimed chronicle of the regeneration of one family's traditional English farm

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Winner of the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing * Named "Nature Book of the Year" by the Sunday Times * New York Times Editors' Choice * Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize and the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize * A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Sunday Times, Financial Times, New Statesman, Independent, Telegraph, Observer, and Daily Mail

"Superbly written and deeply insightful, the book captivates the reader until the journey's end." ?? Wall Street Journal

The New York Times bestselling author of The Shepherd's Life profiles his family's farm across three generations, revealing through this intimate lens the profound global transformation of agriculture and of the human relationship to the land.

As a boy, James Rebanks's grandfather taught him to work the land the old way. Their family farm in England's 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, it was barely recognizable. 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.

Hailed as "a brilliant, beautiful book" by the Sunday Times (London), Pastoral Song (published in the United Kingdom under the title 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 the age-old rhythms of work, weather, community and wild things were lost. And yet 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 a book about what it means to have love and pride in a place, and how, against all the odds, it may still be possible to build a new pastoral: not a utopia, but somewhere decent for us all.

[Published in the United Kingdom as English Pastoral.]

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