Hog Book

Title: Hog Book
Author: William Hedgepeth
ISBN: 9780820320182
Publisher: Univ of Georgia Pr
Published: 1998
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 272
Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: An eccentric and entertaining appreciation of sus domesticus and its relationship with humankind

Where does the hog come from? Where is he going? And if it's true that the modern hog is onto something important, ... then what is it?

Here is the truth about hogs, their lifestyles and their longings, their mad and wondrous ways -- complete with illustrations, photographs. charts, and a cast of thousands. The Hog Book divulges the last word on Farmers, boar hunting, pig language, and the porcine potential. Here are hogs in history; hogs in mythology and ritual; hogs in art, sport, and show biz; hogs in love. Here are hog poems, songs, and proposals outlining freshly radical roles for hogs to play in the new age. In short, here is that forever beguiling creature, the common porker, sus domesticus: the hot-blooded, wholehearted, intelligent, nimblefooted, fastidious, and indefatigable hog that nobody knows.

"Hedgepeth's fey and remarkably informative tribute to the hog will delight those who have an acquaintance with the animals as well as the vast majority whose only contact with them is in the form of pork chops". -- The New York Times