{"product_id":"the-salt-stones-seasons-of-a-shepherds-life","title":"The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd's Life","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHelen Whybrow\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \u003cem\u003eA Man Apart: Bill Coperthwaite's Radical Experiment in Living\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eDead Reckoning: Great Adventure Writing from 1800-1900\u003c\/em\u003e. She is also the editor of many anthologies, including \u003cem\u003eHearth: A Global Conversation on Community, Identity, and Place\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eComing to Land in a Troubled World\u003c\/em\u003e. Her writing has appeared in \u003cem\u003eCagibi\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e Hunger Mountain\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e EatingWell\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eOrion\u003c\/em\u003e. She is a visiting professor at Middlebury College and has taught at the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers' Conference. She lives in the Green Mountains of Vermont, where she shepherds a two-hundred-acre organic farm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWren Fortunoff\u003c\/b\u003e grew up farming and loves very long trail runs in the mountains. She has illustrated on paper bags, T-shirts, dead trees, feet, and walls. This is her first book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Spare prose, great storytelling.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Whybrow is uniquely positioned to understand what humans have lost in severing their bond with nature, yet her message is more hopeful than bleak.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \"Best Book of the Year\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Revelatory. . . magical. . . Whybrow beautifully explores interconnectedness and disruption in nature.\"\u003cb\u003e--Maureen Corrigan, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Whybrow's closely-observed accounts of her working life as a shepherd are filled with muck, sweat and a hard-won sense of the interconnectedness of the natural world.\"\u003cb\u003e--NPR \"Fresh Air\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Beautiful . . . Whybrow's prose is alive. In witnessing the hard but simple work of shepherding these animals, readers will feel themselves somehow tended to.\"\u003cb\u003e--Kate Tuttle, \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Salt Stones\u003c\/i\u003e is a paean to slowing down, observing the world around us more closely, and re-engaging with nature's rhythms and traditional knowledge.\"\u003cb\u003e--ABC NEWS, \"Best Book of the Year\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Whybrow writes in compelling, finely chiseled prose about the annual seasonal rhythms at her beloved Knoll Farm. . . . The perfect tonic for these turbulent times.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eBookPage\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This beautiful memoir is an exploration of shepherding, relationships, and the big, meaningful questions of life.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eBookRiot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A luminous and necessary addition to the literature of food and farming.\"\u003cb\u003e--Jonnah Perkins, \u003ci\u003eCivil Eats\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Through gripping anecdotes and thought-provoking meditations, this superbly crafted memoir recounts a quarter century of raising sheep.\"\u003cb\u003e--Margot Harrison, \u003ci\u003eSeven Days Vermont\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Whybrow constantly looks to the past as she writes into the future, which in many ways is a practice required of any modern farmer.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eMaine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Helen Whybrow offers a glimpse into the life of someone who cares deeply for her family, her flock, and the land they call home. \u003ci\u003eThe Salt Stones\u003c\/i\u003e is a rewarding and beautiful memoir.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eFourth Genre\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Helen Whybrow is a to-the-bone writer, and this is a to-the-bone book--beautiful, real, full of life. You'll reread it.\"\u003cb\u003e--Bill McKibben, author of \u003ci\u003eThe End of Nature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Riveting, breathtaking, intensely powerful, \u003ci\u003eThe Salt Stones\u003c\/i\u003e pulses with life. I deeply love this wise and beautiful book about land and belonging, love and loss, motherhood and daughterhood, and so much more.\"\u003cb\u003e--Janisse Ray, author of \u003ci\u003eEcology of a Cracker Childhood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In her poetic and provocative offerings on her life as a shepherd to a flock of sheep, Helen Whybrow evokes the spirit that Aretha Franklin brought to her transcendent recording of 'Somewhere.' Read Whybrow. Listen to Franklin. Rejoice!\"\u003cb\u003e--Evelyn C. White, author of \u003ci\u003eAlice Walker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A truly moving book, in prose and spirit, filled with deep insights, rich stories, and memorable scenes, a book to be savored and widely shared.\"\u003cb\u003e--Scott Russell Sanders, author of \u003ci\u003eA Private History of Awe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This profound book returns our gaze to forgotten connections with our animal kin, the Earth, and ourselves. Each paragraph shimmers with heart. With Wendell Berry's sensibilities and Robin Wall Kimmerer's poetic insights, Whybrow leads her readers through fertile fields of discovery and knowing.\"\u003cb\u003e--Hank Lentfer, author of \u003ci\u003eRaven's Witness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Vermont Book Awards\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFeatured on NPR's Fresh Air and PBS NewsHour\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e \"Best Book of the Year\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Revelatory. . . magical. . . Whybrow beautifully explores interconnectedness and disruption in nature.\"--Maureen Corrigan, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSet in Vermont's Green Mountains, a profoundly moving meditation on the lessons and wisdom that come from raising a family, tending sheep, and living close to the land.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the heart of Vermont's Green Mountains, Helen Whybrow and her partner set out to restore an old two-hundred-acre farm. Knowing that \"belonging requires, more than anything, participation,\" they begin to intertwine their lives with the land. But soon after releasing a flock of Icelandic sheep onto the worn-out fields, Whybrow realizes that the art of shepherding extends far beyond the flock and fences of Knoll Farm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn prose both vivid and lean, \u003ci\u003eThe Salt Stones\u003c\/i\u003e offers an intimate and profoundly moving story of what it means to care for a flock and truly inhabit a piece of land. The shepherd's life unfolds for Whybrow in the seasons and cycles of farming and family--birthing lambs, fending off coyotes, rescuing lost sheep in a storm, and raising children while witnessing her mother's decline. Exploring the interdependence of animals, as well as of the earth and ourselves, Whybrow reflects on the ways sheep connect her to place and to the ancient practice of shepherding. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvocative, affectionate, and illuminating, \u003ci\u003eThe Salt Stones\u003c\/i\u003e sings of a way of life that is at once ancient and entirely contemporary, inspiring us all to seek greater intimacy and a sense of belonging wherever our home place may be.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eContributor Bio:\u003c\/strong\u003eWhybrow, Helen\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHelen Whybrow\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003cem\u003eA Man Apart: Bill Coperthwaite's Radical Experiment in Living\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eDead Reckoning: Great Adventure Writing from 1800-1900\u003c\/em\u003e. She is also the editor of many anthologies, including \u003cem\u003eHearth: A Global Conversation on Community, Identity, and Place\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eComing to Land in a Troubled World\u003c\/em\u003e. Her writing has appeared in \u003cem\u003eCagibi\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e Hunger Mountain\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e EatingWell\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eOrion\u003c\/em\u003e. She is a visiting professor at Middlebury College and has taught at the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers' Conference. She lives in the Green Mountains of Vermont, where she shepherds a two-hundred-acre organic farm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWren Fortunoff\u003c\/b\u003e grew up farming and loves very long trail runs in the mountains. She has illustrated on paper bags, T-shirts, dead trees, feet, and walls. 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