Download or read book A Shepherd's Life written by W. H. Hudson and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.