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A review by dmcnpsu
The Shepherd's Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape by James Rebanks
5.0
A classic - I started reading the text, and then ended up with the Audiobook. I actually preferred the audiobook - wonderful to hear this read by someone with a distinct but easily understood accent. The book provides a respectful view of a lifestyle we would not otherwise access
The author writes of his father
βHe found "leisure" a strange, modern, and troubling concept. The idea that anyone would climb a fell for its own sake was considered little more than lunacy. So he suffered tourists but found them incomprehensible. I don't think he understood that those people had another perception of ownership of the Lake District. He would have found that as odd as him walking into a suburban garden in London and claiming it was sort of his because he liked the flowers.
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β James Rebanks, The Shepherd's Life, p. 55
The author writes of his father
βHe found "leisure" a strange, modern, and troubling concept. The idea that anyone would climb a fell for its own sake was considered little more than lunacy. So he suffered tourists but found them incomprehensible. I don't think he understood that those people had another perception of ownership of the Lake District. He would have found that as odd as him walking into a suburban garden in London and claiming it was sort of his because he liked the flowers.
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β James Rebanks, The Shepherd's Life, p. 55