A Field Guide to Pigs

by John Pukite

Book Overview

With more than five hundred breeds and varieties, pigs can be found in all shapes and sizes, and on every continent except Antarctica. Although swine have roamed fields and forests for centuries, this... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0142002216
• ISBN13: 9780142002216
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.5" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Cute and informative

This is not a how to book on pig-farming. It is informative about miscellaneous facts and has good breed information. Best of all, it is written in a light-hearted, entertaining manner.

great guide to caring for your pig

a great guide for the new owner of pigs. I have three, pets only, but knew very little about them before they joined the family. They are very bright animals and the book is great source of informations. good price too.

Piggelicious

This book is absolutely delightful! Few of us are aware how rich and varied our farm yard animal's history is. This is a great book for adults and kids alike. It is full of facts and also has small fun tidbits of "useless" (if there is such a thing)information that tickles your funny bone.

Oink!!

This is a book that goes hog-wild with descriptions of twenty-four varieties of domesticated pig and thirteen of their wild relatives. It is larded with many interesting and important facts about the development of today's common breeds. Although the author does ham it up with some of his observations, he has succeeded in fashioning a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

Great book for those who admire the noble pig!

This book is delightful...for those of us who are infatuated with these bristly critters, it gives all the loose-end info that the other books don't. From tail-curling descriptions to grunt analysis, this book brings home the bacon. It included pig folk sayings, poems, pig songs, pig superstitions.. and the piggy illustrations were extremely detailed and captivating, if you adore porkers! It's a fun book to page through, and is chock full of obscure piggy facts that you would never find anywhere else, such as pig trails of past times, or the four varieties of spam. I am sure that any pig lover would be perusing through it as fast as I did.