The Secret Life of Cows.

By Rosamund Young

ISBN: 9780525557333

Printed: 2017

Publisher: Faber & Faber. London

Edition: Second edition

Dimensions 14 × 21 × 2 cm
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Language: English

Size (cminches): 14 x 21 x 2

£18.00
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Navy cloth binding with white title and cows outline on the front board.

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Cows are as varied as people. They can be highly intelligent or slow to understand; vain, considerate, proud, shy or inventive. Although much of a cow’s day is spent eating, they always find time for extracurricular activities such as babysitting, playing hide and seek, blackberry picking or fighting a tree. This is an affectionate record of a hitherto secret world.

“Within a day of receiving this book, I had consumed it… Absorbing, moving, and compulsively readable.”—Lydia Davis In this affectionate, heart-warming chronicle, Rosamund Young distils a lifetime of organic farming wisdom, describing the surprising personalities of her cows and other animals At her famous Kite’s Nest Farm in Worcestershire, England, the cows all roam free. They make their own choices about rearing, grazing, and housing. Left to be themselves, the cows exhibit temperaments and interests as diverse as our own. “Fat Hat” prefers men to women; “Chippy Minton” refuses to sleep with muddy legs and always reports to the barn for grooming before bed; “Jake” has a thing for sniffing the carbon monoxide fumes of the Land Rover exhaust pipe; and “Gemima” greets all humans with an angry shake of the head and is fiercely independent. An organic farmer for decades, Young has an unaffected and homely voice. Her prose brims with genuine devotion to the wellbeing of animals. Most of us never apprehend the various inner lives animals possess, least of all those that we might eat. But Young has spent countless hours observing how these creatures love, play games, and form life-long friendships. She imparts hard-won wisdom about the both moral and real-world benefits of organic farming. This gorgeously-illustrated book, which includes an original introduction by the legendary British playwright Alan Bennett, is the summation of a life’s work, and a delightful and moving tribute to the deep richness of animal sentience.

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