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Shepherds Sight: A Farming Life Audiobook, by Barbara McLean Play Audiobook Sample

Shepherd's Sight: A Farming Life Audiobook

Shepherds Sight: A Farming Life Audiobook, by Barbara McLean Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Robin Siegerman Publisher: Tantor Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 4.83 hours at 1.5x Speed 3.63 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: August 2024 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9798855529647

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

13

Longest Chapter Length:

50:46 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

08:52 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

33:47 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

A restorative and resonant memoir of a year in the life of an aging shepherd

For fifty years, Barbara McLean has tended a flock of Border Leicester sheep on her small Ontario farm, Lambsquarters. In Shepherd's Sight she shares the crises, pleasures, and challenges of farm life over the course of a year. Now in her seventies, McLean faces a new problem: how much longer she can continue with the physically taxing work that is her central source of meaning and satisfaction.

Through her unsentimental gaze, we witness the highs and heartbreaks of delivering and rearing lambs, the shearing and spinning of wool, the wildlife in the woods (and occasionally in the house), and the garden produce moving from seed to harvest to table. Even after half a century on this land, McLean is still making fresh observations, and she shares them in evocative, elegant prose. As she moves through the calendar year, she also reflects on years past, offering a long view on climate, stewardship, and agriculture.

With its vivid description and absorbing storytelling, Shepherd's Sight offers an unforgettable glimpse of a life lived on the land.

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About Robin Siegerman

Denis Daly is an audiobook narrator and codirector of Voices of Today, an Australian spoken word production house.