TY  - BOOK
AU  - White,Janet
TI  - The sheep stell: memoirs of a shepherd 
SN  - 9781785415937
U1  - 636.301092 
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Leicester
PB  - Isis Large Print, [imprint of] F.A. Thorpe (Publishing)
KW  - White, Janet,
KW  - Sheep ranchers
KW  - England
KW  - Biography
KW  - New Zealand
KW  - Women shepherds
KW  - Women farmers
KW  - Large type books
N1  - First published in 1991. This revised edition published London : Constable, 2018; With an introduction by Colin Thubron
N2  - 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
ER  -