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All Cheeses Great and Small
- A Life Less Blurry
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The Shepherd's Life
- Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape
- De: James Rebanks
- Narrado por: Bryan Dick
- Duración: 7 h y 34 m
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Some people's lives are entirely their own creations. James Rebanks' isn't. He's the first son of a shepherd who was the first son of a shepherd himself; his family have lived and worked in the Lake District of Northern England for generations, further back than recorded history. It's a part of the world known mainly for its romantic descriptions by Wordsworth and the much-loved illustrated children's books of Beatrix Potter. But James' world is quite different. His way of life is ordered by the seasons and the work they demand.
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2 out of 5 stars
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The Author Wears His Life As A Heavy Mantle
- De Sara en 12-06-15
De: James Rebanks
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The Yorkshire Shepherdess
- De: Amanda Owen
- Narrado por: Anne Dover
- Duración: 10 h y 10 m
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Amanda Owen has been seen by millions on ITV's The Dales, living a life that has almost gone in today's modern world, a life ruled by the seasons and her animals. She is a farmer's wife and shepherdess, living alongside her husband, Clive, and seven children at Ravenseat, a 2,000 acre sheep hill farm at the head of Swaledale in North Yorkshire. It's a challenging life but one she loves.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I want to go and have cream tea and meet all the animals and the shepherdess herself
- De luvs aussies en 05-30-19
De: Amanda Owen
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Surviving Ireland
- De: Colm Tobin
- Narrado por: Colm Tobin
- Duración: 4 h y 53 m
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It's exhausting being Irish. The constant self-flagellation is enough to put anybody off their breakfast. Why are we so hard on ourselves? Is it the postcolonial overhang following centuries of oppression at the hands of a litany of foreign invaders? Or is it collective guilt for sending Westlife out into the wider world? In Surviving Ireland, acclaimed comedy writer Colm Tobin takes the listener by the hand for a satirical romp through modern Irish life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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very fun
- De Rick en 06-12-19
De: Colm Tobin
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Coming up for Air
- De: George Orwell
- Narrado por: Richard Brown
- Duración: 8 h y 24 m
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George Bowling, an insurance salesman, hits middle age and feels impelled to “come up for air” from his life of quiet desperation. With seventeen pounds he has won at a race, he steals a vacation from his wife and family and pays a visit to Lower Binfield, the village where he grew up, to fish for carp in a pool he remembers from thirty years before. But the pool is gone, Lower Binfield has changed beyond recognition, and the principal event of Bowling’s holiday is an accidental bombing by the RAF.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Orwell Flirts and Fishes w/ Nostalgia & Modernity.
- De Darwin8u en 07-10-12
De: George Orwell
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A Year in Provence
- De: Peter Mayle
- Narrado por: Peter Mayle
- Duración: 2 h y 52 m
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Peter Mayle and his wife had been to Provence as tourists. They had dreamed of one day trading the long, grey winters and damp summers of England for the blue skies and sunshine of the coast of southern France. And then they made it happen. They moved into an old farmhouse at the foot of the Luberon mountains and embarked on a wonderful, if at times bewildering, new life.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Ban abridged versions
- De marlowe en 03-30-15
De: Peter Mayle
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The Good Good Pig
- The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood
- De: Sy Montgomery
- Narrado por: Xe Sands
- Duración: 5 h y 57 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 349
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A naturalist who spent months at a time living on her own among wild creatures in remote jungles, Sy Montgomery had always felt more comfortable with animals than with people. So she gladly opened her heart to a sick piglet who had been crowded away from nourishing meals by his stronger siblings. Yet Sy had no inkling that this piglet, later named Christopher Hogwood, would not only survive but flourish.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Uplifting memoir of a pig + autobiography
- De Diana en 04-04-19
De: Sy Montgomery
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A Russian Journal
- De: John Steinbeck
- Narrado por: Richard Poe
- Duración: 7 h y 1 m
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Steinbeck and Capa's account of their journey through Cold War Russia is a classic piece of reportage and travel writing.Just after the Iron Curtain fell on Eastern Europe, Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Steinbeck and acclaimed war photographer Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union to report for the New York Herald Tribune.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Extremely Interesting
- De Jean en 12-04-14
De: John Steinbeck
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The Electricity of Every Living Thing
- A Woman's Walk in the Wild to Find Her Way Home
- De: Katherine May
- Narrado por: Katherine May
- Duración: 8 h y 34 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 137
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In anticipation of her 38th birthday, Katherine May set out to walk the 630-mile South West Coast Path. She wanted time alone, in nature, to understand why she had stopped coping with everyday life; why motherhood had been so overwhelming and isolating; and why the world felt full of expectations she couldn't meet. She was also reeling from a chance encounter with a voice on the radio that sparked her realisation that she might be autistic.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Perfect!!!
- De Amazon Customer en 10-20-22
De: Katherine May
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Farm City
- The Education of an Urban Farmer
- De: Novella Carpenter
- Narrado por: Karen White
- Duración: 9 h y 53 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 385
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Novella Carpenter loves cities - the culture, the crowds, the energy. At the same time, she can't shake the fact that she is the daughter of two back-to-the-land hippies who taught her to love nature and eat vegetables. Ambivalent about repeating her parents' disastrous mistakes, yet drawn to the idea of backyard self-sufficiency, Carpenter decided that it might be possible to have it both ways.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Hmmm.
- De THoward en 09-30-09
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A Hunter's Fireside Book
- Tales of Dogs, Ducks, Birds, & Guns
- De: Gene Hill
- Narrado por: Ray Childs
- Duración: 5 h y 6 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 294
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The legendary American outdoor writer’s finest collection. For decades, Gene Hill’s articles and books have captured the spirit of the outdoors in a way that inspires and entertains millions of readers. A Hunter’s Fireside Book captures the essence of the life of a sportsman and explores the full spectrum of the hunter’s experience: sunrises in the duck blind, an unforgettable hunter’s moon, the camaraderie of men who know the pleasures of being wet and cold and a little bit lost.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beyond acquiring meat, this is why we go afield
- De Ray C en 02-28-20
De: Gene Hill
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Miracles on Maple Hill
- De: Virginia Sorensen
- Narrado por: Cynthia Bishop, the Full Cast Family
- Duración: 4 h y 41 m
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A father's wounded heart. A mother's patient love. An eager boy, an impetuous girl, and, above all, the healing power of nature. These are the classic ingredients that fill Virginia Sorensen's Newbery Award-winning novel with a tender power and lift it to classic status.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful, uplifting book for all ages
- De carmela en 01-09-08
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Deep Creek
- Finding Hope in the High Country
- De: Pam Houston
- Narrado por: Pam Houston
- Duración: 10 h y 5 m
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On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Pam Houston learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Elk calves and bluebirds mark the changing seasons, winter temperatures drop to 35 below, and lightning sparks a 110,000-acre wildfire, threatening her century-old barn and all its inhabitants. Through her travels from the Gulf of Mexico to Alaska, she explores what ties her to the Earth, the ranch most of all.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The most beautiful book I’ve ever read
- De KFratt en 04-26-19
De: Pam Houston
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Coop
- A Year of Poultry, Pigs, and Parenting
- De: Michael Perry
- Narrado por: Michael Perry
- Duración: 10 h y 7 m
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Last seen sleeping off his wedding night in the back of a 1951 International Harvester pickup, Michael Perry is now living in a rickety Wisconsin farmhouse. Faced with 37 acres of fallen fences and overgrown fields, and informed by his pregnant wife that she intends to deliver their baby at home, Perry plumbs his unorthodox childhood - his city-bred parents took in more than 100 foster children while running a ramshackle dairy farm - for clues to how to proceed as a farmer, a husband, and a father.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Meh
- De dpenney en 12-22-16
De: Michael Perry
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Breakfast in Burgundy
- A Hungry Irishman in the Belly of France
- De: Raymond Blake
- Narrado por: John Keating
- Duración: 9 h y 20 m
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Laced with compelling writing about French food and its ways, Breakfast in Burgundy is part travel memoir, part foodie detective story, and part love song to Raymond's adopted home. This audiobook tells the story of the Blake's decision to buy a house in Burgundy. Raymond describes the moments of despair such as the water leak that cost a fortune and the fantastic times too. Blake has admitted to being fascinated by flavor and how it is created."
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5 out of 5 stars
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surprisingly lulz and interesting
- De Amazon Customer en 12-02-21
De: Raymond Blake
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Travels with Charley in Search of America
- De: John Steinbeck
- Narrado por: Gary Sinise
- Duración: 7 h y 58 m
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In September 1960, John Steinbeck and his poodle, Charley, embarked on a journey across America, from small towns to growing cities to glorious wilderness oases. Travels with Charley is animated by Steinbeck’s attention to the specific details of the natural world and his sense of how the lives of people are intimately connected to the rhythms of nature—to weather, geography, the cycles of the seasons. His keen ear for the transactions among people is evident, too, as he records the interests and obsessions that preoccupy the Americans he encounters along the way.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Gary Sinise is fantastic!
- De C. Wilson en 01-11-17
De: John Steinbeck
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Enchanted Glass
- De: Diana Wynne Jones
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 8 h y 10 m
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The mysterious Stalkers show up at almost the same instant 12-year-old Aiden Cain’s grandmother dies. Following his grandmother’s instructions, Aiden decides to seek out a powerful sorcerer at Melstone House. Yet when he arrives, he discovers the man died a year earlier. Melstone House now belongs to the sorcerer’s adult grandson Andrew, who agrees to help Aiden with the Stalker problem.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Magic and Ordinary Life
- De Gentle Reader Jill en 01-24-11
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The Winemaker's Daughter
- De: Timothy Egan
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 12 h y 45 m
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When Brunella Cartolano visits her father on the family vineyard in the basin of the Cascade Mountains, she's shocked by the devastation caused by a four-year drought. Passionate about the Pacific Northwest ecology, Brunella, a cultural impact analyst, is embroiled in a battle to save the Seattle waterfront from redevelopment and to preserve a fisherman's livelihood. But when a tragedy among fire-jumpers results from a failure of the water supply - her brother Niccolo is among those lost - Brunella finds herself with another mission.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Obviously Not Read By A Washington Resident
- De John C Schuyler en 04-24-19
De: Timothy Egan
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre All Cheeses Great and Small
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- colleen
- 05-26-12
I had never heard of this guy
I like books read by the author. This one is a pleasure. Sweet, simple and genuine.
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- A. Wise
- 06-18-12
great story
If you could sum up All Cheeses Great and Small in three words, what would they be?
fantastic farming insite
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
laugh
Any additional comments?
Showed how hard it is to be a farmer, and how valuable our food is, and how much work actually goes into producing quality food.
My wife and I added this to one our top 20 books of all time.
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- terri.short
- 01-02-15
Love listening to this book
Where does All Cheeses Great and Small rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
This is one of my favourite audiobooks.
What did you like best about this story?
Alex James has a beautiful voice and British accent. Seems as though he is always optimistic and takes joy in everything he sees and experiences.
Which scene was your favorite?
Beautiful, melodic descriptions of farm life....food, plants, animals....even piles of poop.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
Chapter 7.....great descriptions of what music means to him.
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- Kristi
- 07-09-16
great story, but I'll read it insead
If you're into the City Mouse that became a Country Mouse through naiveté and mishap (which I am) this is a great one for the genre.
However, I couldn't finish listening. I really tried. Perhaps it's because I just finished a Neil Gaiman book with his lullaby English accent that made this listen so tough. Or perhaps it's because I normally listen at 1.25-1.40 and I had to turn this down to 1.0. I'm definitely going to read this with my eyes, if not with my ears.
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