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Carnegie, Sacha
Pigs I Have Known
London: Peter Davies, 1958, 1st Edition, 1st Printing
First Edition
Hard Cover
Near Fine
Very Good+ Anne Gordon
-----------hardcover, a Near Fine copy in an attractive Very Good+ dustjacket, 254 pages, b&w illustrations, ---"This is definitely not a textbook on the art of pig keeping. True, Major Carnegie runs a pig farm not far from Aberdeen which he has built up, starting from scratch, into a paying concern. His credentials are thus established. But his object in writing PIGS I HAVE KNOWN has quite clearly been not to instruct but to entertain, and he has uproariously succeeded. In the pages of this very funny, very realistic, intensely human tale of endeavour, we are introduced to a wide variety of pleasant and less pleasant pigs and people. There are trials and tribulations in plenty - in such plenty, indeed, that one wonders how the author found time in the last few years to write his admirable books. But the accent is always on the humorous side of even the most desperate crises; and the story, after all, is in its modest way a success story. At the beginning Major Carnegie knew nothing whatsoever about pigs except that they grunted, and sizzled nicely in the frying pan; by the end he knows, and so do we, that there is a great deal between the grunt and the sizzle. Those who in childhood were beguiled by Beatrix Potter's 'Pigling Bland' will love this book; pig keepers, large and small scale, will find it edifying to a degree; and indeed its appeal extends to all who enjoy the realities of country life and country matters."---, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo
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