# A Shepherd's Life

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- Book: [A Shepherd's Life](https://www.bookquiver.com/w-h-hudson/a-shepherds-life) ([A Shepherd's Life.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/w-h-hudson/a-shepherds-life.md))
- Authors: [W. H. Hudson](https://www.bookquiver.com/w-h-hudson)
- Publisher: Penguin Classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4127-335-7
- Pages: 240
- Published: 2016-12-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Considered a classic at the time of its publication in 1910, A Shepherd's Life is a rare account of the lives of those who lived on and worked the land in nineteenth-century rural Britain. A masterful work of prose, W. H. Hudson focuses on the story of one man, a Wiltshire shepherd named Caleb Bawcombe, whose tales of sheep dogs, farmer's wives, poachers and local fairs become a sublime account of a way of life that has largely disappeared from these shores.