The bizarre stilt-walking shepherds of France’s heathlands

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c. 1936

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The Landes region of southwestern France was for much of its history impoverished, with few roads and vast swaths of marshy and treacherous terrain. To navigate the soft and unsteady heathlands, shepherds developed a unique adaptation — they traveled on...

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