Human civilisation was not just created by humans: we had the help of many creatures, and foremost among these were sheep. From Argentina to Australia and from Mesopotamia to Mongolia, just about every country with hills and meadows has adopted and then developed sheep farming as a way of living. And in Wales in particular, sheep played a central role in shaping landscape and culture.
Sheeplands outlines the journeys taken by some of these sheep as they voyaged across the world, both by themselves and with human shepherds, from the earliest human settlements to the present day. Along the way, Alan Marshall paints vivid portraits of the roles sheep have played in the development of the modern world, in times of peace and war, and describes how our sheeplands might continue to influence Wales and the wider world in future years.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Prologue
- Wild Sheeplands
- Villages of Sheep
- Towns of Sheep
- Cities of Sheep
- Sheeplands of Stone Age Wales
- The Sheep of the Pharaohs
- Sheeplands of the Indus Valley
- Sheeplands of the Beaker Folk
- Lands of the Golden Fleece
- Sheeplands of the Celts
- Sheeplands of the Roman Empire
- The Flocks of Patricius
- Sheeplands of the Dark Ages
- Sheeplands of the Vikings
- Sheeplands of the Normans
- The Sheep of Christ’s Servants
- A Lion Saved by Sheep
- Sheeplands of the Mongol Empire
- The Welsh Prince vs the English King
- The Sheep of Avalon
- Kingdom of Wool
- Black Shepherds of Death
- Discovery of New Sheeplands
- Sheeplands of the Tudors
- British Wool and American Freedom
- Clearances and Enclosures
- The Welsh Drover
- Sheeplands of the Antipodes
- Wool and the Industrial Revolution
- The Chartist Revolt
- Daughters of Rebecca
- The Welsh Sheepland of Patagonia
- Wars of the Ranges
- Global Sheeplands
- A Green Sheepland
- Epilogue
- Image Credits
- Further Reading
- Plate Section
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