Goatwalking
by Corbett, Jim · first published 1991
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The author, who has spent much of his life tending goats in Arizona, recounts how he became one of the founders of the Sanctuary movement, helping political refugees from El Salvador and Guatemala.
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…you've never heard of it, seek it out, it's fabulous! Edit: Since alecst has obviously already read Kabloona, I might as well give a few more that are on that "list": Winter Wheat by Mildred Walker, Goatwalking by Jim Corbett, and Hyssop by Kevin McIlvoy. Maybe you'd like one of them too.
on “Economists don't know what's going on” ↗Not to take away from the perfectly adequate linked article, but as a philosophical musing on keeping goats, it reminded me of the fabulous book "Goatwalking" by Jim Corbett. It's a hard to describe book that covers a lot of territory in not too many pages. Here's a review by Mark Schlenze that I think captures a lot of it: --- From the premise that is…
on “For the Love of Goats” ↗> The net result is such a society could really only exist if protected by a great power. reminds me a bit of Jim Corbett's "Goatwalking".
on “The Moral Economy of the Shire” ↗