JLS’s approach to sheep and shepherding is both practical and lyrical – he, the shepherd, sometimes lies down to sleep with his sheep. Interesting too are his ideas about what constitutes good sheep farming.
The Sheep’s Tale: The Story of Our Most Misunderstood Farmyard Animal
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£12.99
Edition:Hardback978085752706607/04/2022
Categories: 11. Spring Books 2022: The Natural World, Natural History, Spring Books 2022
Tag: Environment
From a Bookshelf nearby
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Tree-poaching and the ownership of wildnernesses from Sherwood to the Amazon: a well-researched study of the black market for timber and its wider implications.
Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in the Woods
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Landscape preservation through the lives of Octavia Hill (London), Beatrix Potter (Lake District), Pauline Dower (Northumberland), and Sylvia Sayer (Dartmoor).
The Women Who Saved the English Countryside
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...and why it's good for the planet, the economy and our lives. We may even have time to read it. Prof Dorling is a specialist in demography at Oxford and knows his onions.
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Climate, exploration, Arctic peoples, trade, material culture and the present - wonders to be shown, d.v., at the British Museum from late May this year.
Arctic: culture and climate
Hardback £35.00