goatwalking

English

Etymology

goat +‎ walking, introduced by James A. Corbett.

Noun

goatwalking (uncountable)

1. A form of nomadic wildland living, travelling with goats and milking them for food, put forward as an alternative to modern living.
   • 1988, David Quammen, The Flight of the Iguana:

     The goatwalker is a runaway slave who knows how to live off the land. Naturally, therefore, he will feel sympathy for his fellow cimarrons—and Jim Corbett's own goatwalking has always had that dimension.

   • 1997, Paul Shepard, The Others: How Animals Made Us Human, page 302:

     Goatwalking in North America is advocated by Jim Corbett, who extols the virtues of seasonal, nomadic, pedestrian pastorality, attracting the disenchanted.