British Pigs: No. 340 (Shire Library) - Softcover

Val Porter

9780747807636: British Pigs: No. 340 (Shire Library)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0747807639 ISBN 13: 9780747807636

Publisher: Shire Publications, 2009

Over the centuries different localities had developed their own tastes in what their pigs should look like. This book describes these breeds and how they developed. It looks at some of the evocatively named extinct pigs and at foreign breeds that are imported and become part of the British pig.

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About the Author:

Val Porter has written about thirty books, many of them about livestock and other animals, running a smallholding, and rural life past and present, including three major books comprehensively describing the world's breeds of pigs, cattle and goats. She has been a member of the Rare Breeds Survival Trust for many years; the title of her book Practical Rare Breeds is self-explanatory and, jointly with Lawrence Alderson, she has written the history of the RBST.

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