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Before dawn, in a freezing hut on the edge of the village, Col wakes — and walks away from every other human being for the rest of the day. This is the life of the medieval shepherd: long hours, small pay, and near-total solitude. Yet no man in the village was trusted more, because wool was the engine of England itself.
Follow a shepherd through a single day in the 1300s — the dawn count of four hundred sheep, the whistle-language of the sheepdog, the tally sticks carved season by season, and the deadly threats of wolves, rustlers, and foot rot. Discover why England's wool was the finest in Christendom, how Flemish merchants and abbots built fortunes on fleece, and why kings taxed wool to pay for wars. From spring lambing — sleeping six weeks in the lambing hut — to the great shearing day and the winter test of snow and frozen troughs, this is the story of the lonely keepers who stood between the wilderness and the wealth of a kingdom.
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