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    A Short History of the World According to Sheep

    By Sally Coulthard

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    'This book deserves a place in your bookcase next to Harari's Sapiens. It's every bit as fascinating and is surely destined to be just as successful' Julian Norton

    From the plains of ancient Mesopotamia to the vast sheep farms of modern-day Australia, sheep have been central to the human story. Since our our Neolithic ancestors' first forays into sheep-rearing nearly 11,000 years ago, these remarkable animals have fed us, clothed us, changed our diet and language and financed the conquest of large swathes of the earth.

    Sally Coulthard weaves this fascinating story into a vivid and colourful tapestry of engaging anecdotes and extraordinary ovine facts, whose multiple strands celebrate just how pivotal these woolly animals are to almost every aspect of human society and culture.

    This title was published also in the United States under the title Follow the Flock.

    'A snappy, stimulating book, and certainly not just for shepherds' Mail on Sunday

    'Full of fascinating social history' Independent

    'You won't look at a sheep in the same way again' Country Living

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherApollo
    Release dateAug 6, 2020
    ISBN9781789544220
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    Sally Coulthard

    Sally Coulthard is an expert in nature, rural history and craft. She has published over twenty-five books and her titles have been translated into a dozen languages. She studied archaeology and anthropology at the University of Oxford and worked in television before becoming a writer. She lives on a smallholding in North Yorkshire with her family and writes a column for Country Living magazine called ‘A Good Life’.

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      This was a very entertaining, and at the same time easy, read. And of course not my usual crime fiction.Who knew there would be so many aspects of our relationship with sheep to consider: from how they were originally tamed, to the properties that make wool so useful, how long we have been relieving sheep of their woolly coats, and then the employment that sheep have sponsored in the human race, the importance they have had economically and socially speaking, the role they have played in the history countries all over the world? Each chapter is entertaining with myriad anecdotes. For those who want the serious stuff of history there are scores of references to follow up. I just enjoyed the stories.Highly recommended.