AUTHOR and shepherdess Amanda Owen is going global - although she hasn’t even got a passport.

Mrs Owen, a mother of now nine children who has written two books about her life as a shepherdess in the Yorkshire Dales, took her sheep and samples of her baking to Muker Show in the heart of Swaledale on Wednesday, where she was presented with the new German edition of her book.

The Yorkshire Shepherdess, which went into the top ten bestseller list in 2014, has been translated by Ilka Schluechtermann, from Heidelberg, who has spent summers in Swaledale for the past 35 years.

Mrs Schluechtermann said: "I read the book and was so sure it had to be read in Germany. I persuaded a publisher to buy the rights, translated it, and brought the first book over for the show.

“It’s such a big subject at the moment, getting back to basics and living in the countryside. I think women will be particularly interested in Amanda and her life, living with nature and animals and rearing the children.”

Mrs Owen, who was also being filmed at the show for an episode of the ITV series Countrywise, said spreading the book around the world is a bonus.

“It’s amazing. I’m going global without going anywhere," she said. "That’s good because I don’t have a passport and I don’t want to go anywhere.

"It’s not personal I just love it here."

Mrs Owen gave birth to ninth child, daughter Nancy, seven weeks ago. Together with husband Clive, the family live and work at remote hill farm Ravenseat.

She said she would love the book to be printed in many other languages, but only agreed for the German edition because Mrs Schluechtermann had asked her.

She said: “If people come to us that’s fine - people are interested in country life. I feel I have been really lucky living here and I want to share that with the rest of the world. And there are important issues that need to be talked about, that need to be highlighted about country life."