Dimensions
129 x 198 x 14mm
"This life of simple, unchanging actions and of habits that are like instincts, of hard labour in sun and wind and rain from day to day' This soaring account of rural life is a heartfelt celebration of the ordinary men and women who worked the land in nineteenth-century England. It is told largely through the story of Caleb Bawcombe, a shepherd on the Wiltshire downs for fifty years, son of a shepherd before him, whose memories of sheep dogs, poachers, local fairs, blacksmiths, old ballads and wild birds depict a way of life that was fast vanishing, and has now disappeared."
