Sheeplands

How Sheep Shaped Wales and the World

Alan Marshall

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English

Calon
09 July 2024

History: specific events & topics; Animals & society; The environment

Human civilisation was not just created by humans: we had the help of many creatures, and foremost among these were sheep. From Argentina to Australia and from Mesopotamia to Mongolia, just about every country with hills and meadows has adopted and then developed sheep farming as a way of living. And in Wales in particular, sheep played a central role in shaping landscape and culture.

Sheeplands outlines the journeys taken by some of these sheep as they voyaged across the world, both by themselves and with human shepherds, from the earliest human settlements to the present day. Along the way, Alan Marshall paints vivid portraits of the roles sheep have played in the development of the modern world, in times of peace and war, and describes how our sheeplands might continue to influence Wales and the wider world in future years.

By: Alan Marshall
Imprint: Calon
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 135mm, Spine: 23mm
ISBN: 9781915279385
ISBN 10: 1915279380
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 09 July 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: No Longer Our Product

Alan Marshall is an author and scholar of environmental humanities. He is the author of several books, including Ecotopia 2121: A Vision for Our Future Green Utopia in 100 Cities.

Reviews for Sheeplands: How Sheep Shaped Wales and the World

""Top of your Royal Welsh reads should be 'Sheeplands, ' Alan Marshall's joyous celebration of those woolly pillars of the rural economy. As you can tell from the subtitle 'How Sheep Shaped Wales and the World, ' this is a book of epic scope, as we follow the winding track which leads back into the mists of history and the furthest corners of the globe.""-- ""Nation.Cymru""