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Author:
James Rebanks
Publisher:
Mariner Books
Date:
August 3, 2021
James Rebanks chronicles his family's farm in England's Lake District across three generations, revealing the global transformation of agriculture and of the human relationship to the land.
What The Reviewers Say
Thank the gods of agriculture for James Rebanks.
Superbly written and deeply insightful, the book captivates the reader until the journey’s end.
Rebanks’ passion...permeates Pastoral Song.
'Do we want a countryside that is entirely shaped by industrial-scale cheap food production with some little islands of wilderness dotted in amongst it, or do we, in at least some places, also value the traditional landscape as shaped by traditional family farms?' Pastoral Song...compels us to grapple with that question, and it is, if anything, even more urgent and eloquent than its predecessor.
