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James Reebanks is an author and sheep farmer from the English Lake District. His first book, The Shepherd's Life, was published in 2015. Econ Talk will try to give listeners some idea of what it's like to raise sheep. We may also get to his 2020 book, English Pastoral.

James Rebanks's family has raised sheep in the same small English village for at least four centuries. There are records of people with his same last name going back a few hundred more. Even his sheep are rooted in place: their DNA is from Viking times. It's enough to make anyone feel insignificant--and according to Rebanks, that's a wonderful thing. Listen as the author of The Shepherd's Life speaks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about the deep pleasures and humbling privilege of being a sheep farmer.