While her peers in post-WWII Britain headed off to college or got married, Janet White chose a different path: She became a shepherd. Undaunted by the hard work and rugged living conditions, White traveled from England to Scotland to New Zealand and home again, hiring on at farms and in wild swaths of countryside. The work was sometimes isolating but always invigorating, particularly once she added a family to the mix! This lyrical memoir celebrates an unorthodox life and our spectacular natural world.