The sheep stell : memoirs of a shepherd /
White, Janet, 1929-
The sheep stell : memoirs of a shepherd / Janet White. - First Isis edition. - viii, 304 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.
First published in 1991. This revised edition published London : Constable, 2018. With an introduction by Colin Thubron.
As a child in wartime England, Janet White decided that she wanted to live somewhere wild and supremely beautiful, to inhabit and work the landscape. She imagined searching the whole world for a place, high and remote as a sheep stell, quiet as a monastery - challenging and pristine... Janet has always tended sheep - first as a young girl in the Cheviots, then on an uninhabited island off New Zealand, with a bonfire as her only means of communication with the mainland. After a brutal attack, she was forced to leave her island and returned to England, where she married, became a smallholder in Sussex, and finally bought a hill farm in Somerset. Underpinning this account is Janet's attachment to the land, and her commitment to combine the principles of conservation with successful farming.
9781785415937 178541593X 9781785415999 1785415999
White, Janet, 1929-
Sheep ranchers--England--Biography.
Sheep ranchers--New Zealand--Biography.
Women shepherds--New Zealand--Biography.
Women shepherds--England--Biography.
Women farmers--New Zealand--Biography.
Women farmers--England--Biography.
Large type books.
636.301092
The sheep stell : memoirs of a shepherd / Janet White. - First Isis edition. - viii, 304 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.
First published in 1991. This revised edition published London : Constable, 2018. With an introduction by Colin Thubron.
As a child in wartime England, Janet White decided that she wanted to live somewhere wild and supremely beautiful, to inhabit and work the landscape. She imagined searching the whole world for a place, high and remote as a sheep stell, quiet as a monastery - challenging and pristine... Janet has always tended sheep - first as a young girl in the Cheviots, then on an uninhabited island off New Zealand, with a bonfire as her only means of communication with the mainland. After a brutal attack, she was forced to leave her island and returned to England, where she married, became a smallholder in Sussex, and finally bought a hill farm in Somerset. Underpinning this account is Janet's attachment to the land, and her commitment to combine the principles of conservation with successful farming.
9781785415937 178541593X 9781785415999 1785415999
White, Janet, 1929-
Sheep ranchers--England--Biography.
Sheep ranchers--New Zealand--Biography.
Women shepherds--New Zealand--Biography.
Women shepherds--England--Biography.
Women farmers--New Zealand--Biography.
Women farmers--England--Biography.
Large type books.
636.301092