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The Last Transhuman in the British Isles

Alice starmore is a textile designer, an artist, an author and a crofter. She's also most likely the last person in the british isles to have taken part in the tradition of transhumans - seasonal movement of people and livestock. The practice died out long ago but on lewis it survived into the 19 sixties. Alice starts by introducing us to the untranslatable gallic concept of ducas as there's onthing i love is untranslatable Gallic concepts.

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