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These days his vehicle might be a four-wheel-drive rather than a horse, but Pekin remains an old-fashioned upholder of pastoral civilization. That he is doing his job is clear from the statistics: lamb survival rates are 85% inside the fence; 60% outside it. And there's no...
Springvale homestead, an hour's drive from Halls Creek, was the home of legendary cattleman and bush poet Tom Quilty. Until the 1886 gold rush, the station was one of this region's few inhabited places. Historian Geoffrey Blainey described men with gold lust traveling the final 1,000 km...
Pastoral work can be all-consuming. How do you relax?
Beloved won with 15 votes; DeLillo's Underworld got the silver medal with 11. Also among the top vote-getters was Philip Roth's American Pastoral (7 votes), Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian (8 votes) and John Updike's Rabbit quadrilogy (also 8 votes, from judges using the term "novel...
Ah, Harvard College. Perhaps meant to evoke the image of a quaint, tight-knit liberal arts collegium in the pastoral beauty of rural New England? If Harvard’s COFHE scores are about nothing so much as nomenclature, this should clearly do the trick.