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The Sheep Stell: Memoirs of a Shepherd

The Sheep Stell: Memoirs of a Shepherd


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'Every animal needs its own territory and humans are no exception. My plans were clear at an early age. I intended to live somewhere wild and supremely beautiful . . . I imagined searching the whole world for a place, high and remote as a sheep stell, quiet as a monastery, challenging and virginal, untouched and unknown.' Over twenty years ago, well before the current trend for nature writing, Janet White wrote THE SHEEP STELL, a beautiful and evocative memoir about her life as a shepherdess. Throughout her life Janet has always tended sheep - first as a young woman in the Cheviot Hills, where she was treated with bewilderment by the other shepherds, before leaving Britain to live on an uninhabited island off the coast of New Zealand with a bonfire as her only means of communication with the mainland and only her flock of 200 sheep for company. After a brutal attack by an obsessed young man bent on her destruction, she was forced to leave her beloved island and return to England, where she married, became a smallholder in Sussex and finally bought a hill farm in Somerset where she still lives today. Her memoir tells the tale of a woman before her time, with incredible courage and determination, and wanting only peace and solitude in nature and a life with animals. Underpinning THE SHEEP STELL is Janet's devotion to the land and her total commitment to combining the principles of conservation with successful farming. Janet White is a trailblazer, both in her life and work. THE SHEEP STELL is testament to that and homage to the nature we're so rapidly losing touch with. It is a true celebration of the pastoral and pure escapism to a simpler life. 'This is a strange and lovely book, and quiet as it is, it makes you gasp at the profoundly lived quality of the life it so modestly describes' Jenny Diski 'A hymn to country solitude, lyrical, unpretentious and deeply felt' Colin Thubron

About the Author :
After sixty lambings, one marriage and a big family, Janet White is now in her eighties and continues to farm in the West Country, zooming around the Quantocks on a quad bike.

Review :
One woman's gloriously lyrical account of life and love as a shepherdess Janet White's unfailingly enjoyable book . . . taps into a widespread feeling that we have become cut off from the natural world . . . both an evocative picture of a life adapted to seasonal rhythms and an arresting account of the casual sexism White experienced Lovers of the countryside will enjoy this moving, quietly written account of a young woman's adventures as she made her way in the farming world . . . An immensely enjoyable and heartfelt book: it makes you want to run for the hills A fascinating read that will move and inspire with every turn of the page Intense insight A hymn to country solitude, lyrical, unpretentious and deeply felt This is a strange and lovely book, and quiet as it is, it makes you gasp at the profoundly lived quality of the life it so modestly describes A book to share or even fight over if necessary An extraordinary memoir . . . The Sheep Stell is pure joy, one of the most moving books I've read in a long time Utterly enchanting; a fascinating story, beautifully written Janet White's book should be compulsory reading Janet writes delightfully of her unique life story and ultimately tranquil life on her West Country farm. But that idyllic lifestyle belies the steely determination that led her to the other side of the world and unforeseen drama, as she pursued her dream of shepherding A beautifully written memoir of a quietly courageous life. My admiration for its author grew on every page: her strength of purpose, her resolve, and her clear, straightforward love of solitude, space and freedom that carried her - and carried me - around the world and back


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781472128614
  • Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
  • Publisher Imprint: Constable
  • Height: 218 mm
  • No of Pages: 288
  • Sub Title: Memoirs of a Shepherd
  • Width: 138 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1472128613
  • Publisher Date: 15 Mar 2018
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 22 mm
  • Weight: 306 gr


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