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This history of one of our best-loved animals, first published in 1986, traces the development of the pig as an integral part of British agriculture and describes the changes that have taken place both in its breeding and in its husbandry. This new edition, illustrated with paintings, photographs and line drawings, includes the famous ""Dissertation upon Roast Pig"" by Charles Lamb, along with a new introduction and updated final chapter taking account of the most recent developments.

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charmingly illustrated with old engravings and new photographs - an elegantly produced summary of acomplicated subject. -- Times Literary Supplement

It is perhaps not entirely accidental that the domestic pig - an animal that has much in common, both anatomically and physiologically, with humans - has been largely overlooked. Since domestication in the early bronze age, the pig has been seen as the poor man's animal, often dismissed as brutish, filthy and gluttonous, devouring indiscriminately and therefore not meriting serious study. Wiseman here engagingly unravels the complex subject of pig geneology and husbandry methods through the ages to restore this noble, versatile animal to its rightful place in our heritage. Essentially a 'eulogy on the pig's contribution to our sustenance', this study is wonderfully illustrated with plates from the 11th century to the present, and is introduced by a delightful dissertation on the delicacies of roast pig by essayist Charles Lamb. (Kirkus UK)

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