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The Shepherd's Life: A Tale of the Lake District is an autobiographical book by James Rebanks, a sheep farmer from Matterdale, Cumbria, England, published by Allen Lane in 2015. It was the BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week in April 2015, and was adapted Read More..

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Description	The Shepherd's Life: A Tale of the Lake District is an autobiographical book by James Rebanks, a sheep farmer from Matterdale, Cumbria, England, published by Allen Lane in 2015. It was the BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week in April 2015, and was adapted for theatre by Chris Monks and produced at Theatre by the Lake, Keswick, in March 2016. The theatrical production included life-sized puppet sheepdogs and sheep. Includes photograph of puppet sheepRebanks describes the traditional way of life of shepherds on the Cumbrian fells, and his determination to continue to farm where generations of his forebears had done. After an unsuccessful school education he later studied for A levels in evening classes and graduated from Oxford University with a double first. He still farms Herdwick sheep, while also running a business consultancy based at his farm, and has a following of 60,000 on Twitter as "Herdwick Shepherd". The book was published in large print and in the United States as The Shepherd's Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape. (Thorndike Press large print edition, ISBN 978-1410484550; Flatiron books, ISBN 978-1250060242).
Description	The Shepherd's Life: A Tale of the Lake District is an autobiographical book by James Rebanks, a sheep farmer from Matterdale, Cumbria, England, published by Allen Lane in 2015. It was the BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week in April 2015, and was adapted for theatre by Chris Monks and produced at Theatre by the Lake, Keswick, in March 2016. The theatrical production included life-sized puppet sheepdogs and sheep. Includes photograph of puppet sheepRebanks describes the traditional way of life of shepherds on the Cumbrian fells, and his determination to continue to farm where generations of his forebears had done. After an unsuccessful school education he later studied for A levels in evening classes and graduated from Oxford University with a double first. He still farms Herdwick sheep, while also running a business consultancy based at his farm, and has a following of 60,000 on Twitter as "Herdwick Shepherd". The book was published in large print and in the United States as The Shepherd's Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape. (Thorndike Press large print edition, ISBN 978-1410484550; Flatiron books, ISBN 978-1250060242).

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Pages	320
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Publisher	Allen Lane
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Pub_date	2 April 2015
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