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THE ACCLAIMED INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER"A brilliant, beautiful book" (Sunday Times) : the New York Times bestselling author of A Shepherd's Life chronicles his family's farm in England's Lake District across three generations as they lose and reclaim "the old ways," revealing through this intimate lens the profound global transformation of food production and of the human relationship to the land.As a boy, James Rebanks's grandfather taught him to work the land the old way. Their family farm in the Lake District hills was part of an ancient agricultural landscape: a patchwork of crops and meadows, of pastures grazed with livestock, and hedgerows teeming with wildlife. And yet, by the time James inherited the farm, it was barely recognizable.