The Shepherd's Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape

The Shepherd's Life

Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape

By
James Rebanks
James Rebanks
2015 • 304 pages

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73 books

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Lory
Empty Mansions
How to be a Victorian
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran

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Memoir

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Drawn From Life
Life Among the Savages
Where Have I Been All My Life? A Journey Toward Love and Wholeness
How to Be a Heroine
The Shepherd's Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape
A Celtic Temperament
The Butterfly Mosque

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Feet of Clay
Snuff
Men at Arms
The Truth
Thief of Time
The Shepherd's Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape
Jingo

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Memoir

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The Year of Magical Thinking
The Diary of a Young Girl
Angela's Ashes: A Memoir
Night
Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
The Glass Castle
Uncle Tungsten

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12 books

England

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Judy
Lady Almina and the real Downton Abbey the lost legacy of Highclere Castle
Falling Angels
The Wake
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
The Honeymoon
The Shepherd's Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape
The Lesser Bohemians

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8 books

Nature

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Judy
The Shepherd's Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape
Life Everlasting: The Animal Way of Death
The Outrun
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
Don't Sleep, There are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
The Home Place
Wolf Willow

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90 books

Non Fiction

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ChristineSupporter
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
The Man Who Ate Everything
Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life
The Princes in the Tower
The Wars of the Roses
Washington: A Life
John Adams

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69 books

To Read Non Fiction

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ChristineSupporter
The Romanovs: 1613-1918
The Mayor of Mogadishu
I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual
The thousand-mile war
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
The Shepherd's Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape
Basic Witches

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300 books

Landscape And Place

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Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside
All The Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West

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Ecology

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The Zen of Fish
The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed
Silt Road: The Story of a Lost River
High Cotton: Four Seasons in the Mississippi Delta

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Britain England Scotland

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Demobbed: Coming Home After the Second World War
Britain AD
Hidden Histories: A Spotter's Guide to the British Landscape
Britain B.C. : life in Britain and Ireland before the Romans

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Nature Writing

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Nature Cure
The Monkey Wrench Gang
Riverman: An American Odyssey
The Wild Rover

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Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum
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Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
Cahokia: Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi
Beasts: What Animals Can Teach Us About the Origins of Good and Evil
Becoming Queen

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United Kingdom

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The Boy Who Loved Books: A Memoir
The Perfect Summer: Dancing Into Shadow In 1911
Nella Last's War
Black diamonds
A measureless peril
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher

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Nature Gardening Agriculture

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The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide
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The Elephant Whisperer
A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon's Flight to Extinction
Beasts: What Animals Can Teach Us About the Origins of Good and Evil

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Prologue

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C. S. Lewis - A Life
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
Cahokia: Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi
Becoming Queen
Daughter of Empire: My Life as a Mountbatten
Custer's Trials

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0 books

Owned

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127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
The Lobster Coast
Lisey's Story
Cell
Bag of Bones
The Colorado Kid
Hull Zero Three

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God Of The Garden

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The God of the Garden: Thoughts on Creation, Culture, and the Kingdom
Wordsworth: Poetical Works. With Introduction and Notes.
The Natural History of Selborne
Jayber Crow
All Creatures Great and Small
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from A Secret World

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0 books

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Ricardo
Brave New World
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Tales
When We Were Orphans
Fingersmith
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Anno Dracula
The Importance of Being Earnest

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Maybe

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Four fish : the future of the last wild food
Thunderstruck
Let Them Be Eaten By Bears: A Fearless Guide to Taking Our Kids Into the Great Outdoors
What's a Dog For?: The Surprising History, Science, Philosophy, and Politics of Man's Best Friend
Inferno
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71 books

Memoir

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Love You Hard
Know My Name
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
A Living Remedy: A Memoir
All You Can Ever Know
The Leaving Season: A Memoir in Essays
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death

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Library

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Laura
Devotion: A Memoir
Silk is for Seduction
The Sisters Brothers
The Murder at the Vicarage
Fear
A duke by default
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

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303 books

Non Fiction

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Laura
Devotion: A Memoir
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
Fear
The Art of Memoir
Hunger
The Solace of Open Spaces
At Large and at Small: Familiar Essays

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72 books

England

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Tudors
The Life and Times of William I
Struggle for the Constitution, 1603-1689: England in the Seventeenth Century
Conquest: The English Kingdom of France
The Cavaliers
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