A Shepherd's Life (Nature Classics Library)

W.H. Hudson

ISBN 10: 0956254578 / ISBN 13: 9780956254573

Published by Little Toller Books, 2010

About this Item

Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Shepherd's Life (Nature Classics Library)
• Publisher: Little Toller Books
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0956254578
• ISBN 13: 9780956254573
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

Through the story of one man, Caleb Bawcombe, a shepherd whose flocks graze the Wiltshire, Hampshire and Dorset borders, we meet men and women of humble birth - poachers, gypsies, farmers and laborers - striving to survive on the land. As we read, the cumulative affect of their stories becomes much more than a record of rural life. It reads like a lost hymn, sung by people whose lives were disregarded and whose histories are now forgotten. W H Hudson's masterful book, merging fiction, reminiscence, memoir and oral history, was recognized as a classic when it was first published in 1910. It remains so today. First published by Methuen & Co.

Review

""Hudson is one of those men that love life in the open, and possess a taste for the adventurous and the picturesque."

"Hudson is one of those men that love life in the open, and possess a taste for the adventurous and the picturesque." --Theodore Roosevelt