English PastoralA poetic, practical, raw and almost miraculously detailed picture of an ancient way of life struggling to survive and to be reborn New Statesman 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 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,