The sheep stell : memoirs of a shepherd / Janet White.
Material type: TextPublisher: Leicester : Isis Large Print, [imprint of] F.A. Thorpe (Publishing), 2018Edition: First Isis editionDescription: viii, 304 pages (large print) ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781785415937
- 178541593X
- 9781785415999
- 1785415999
- 636.301092
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Large print | Hāwera LibraryPlus Large print | Large print | 92 WHIT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | I2193379 |
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.
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