The Complete Pig - Hardcover

Rath, Sara

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0896584356 ISBN 13: 9780896584358

Publisher: Voyageur Pr, 2000

Synopsis

Loaded with a fine assortment of photographs...interesting and amusing facts, phrases, stories, folklore, and history...a fun, upbeat book.... Library Journal.

About this title

About the Author:

Sara Rath of Elm Grove, Wisconsin is the author of Voyageur Press' "The Complete Cow" and "About Cows," one novel, and four volumes of poetry. She also writes short stories, non-fiction articles, radio scripts, and screenplays for public TV and film. The granddaughter of a prizewinning cheesemaker, Sara has been heavily influenced by the rural landscape, as evidenced in her writing.

From Library Journal:

Loaded with a fine assortment of photographs and illustrations, old and new, this is a collection of all kinds of interesting and amusing facts, phrases, stories, folklore, and history about pigs. Emphasized throughout is our human relationships with pigs in mythology and literature, as pets and entertainment, as the objects of sport hunting and as hunters (for truffles), and, of course, as food for the table. Readers will learn to say "oink" in 19 different languages, what the apple stuffed in the mouth of the wild boar's head served at Christmas in Old England represented, the highest price ever paid for a hog, when National Pig Day occurs, what souse is, and how the term ham actor came about. This is a fun, upbeat book that doesn't delve deeply into modern, large-scale swine production and its animal welfare and environmental issues. Rath recently gave bovines a similar treatment in The Complete Cow (Voyageur, 1998). Recommended especially for public libraries.DWilliam H. Wiese, Iowa State Univ. Lib., Ames
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About this edition

• Publisher: Voyageur Pr
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0896584356
• ISBN 13: 9780896584358
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144