Along came a llama
Ruck, Ruth Janette2020
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Total copies: 1
This rediscovered gem tells the charming tale of how a baby llama transformed a Welsh farming family forever. *WATERSTONES WELSH BOOK OF THE MONTH*My Family and Other Animals meets The Secret Life of Cows: this rediscovered gem tells the charming tale of how a baby llama transformed a Welsh farming family forever.Things llamas like:Snaffling cherry brandy, Easter eggs, and the Radio Times.Curling up in 'tea-cosy' position by the fire.Orbiting, helicoptering, and oompahing. Locking victims in the lavatory. Things llamas dislike:Being adopted mother to an orphaned lamb.Invitations to star on Blue Peter. Snowdonia's rainfall. The dark. Ruth Ruck's family live on a Welsh mountain farm, no strangers to cow pats on the carpet and nesting hens in the larder. When dark days strike, they embark on a farming experiment to cheer them all up - but raising a baby llama proves more of an adventure than expected .Reissued with a new foreword by John Lewis-Stempel, Along Came a Llama is a delightful 1970s farming classic: a charming, witty potrait of country life that will warm the hearts of animal lovers everywhere.'Full of soul ... One departs this book a convinced llama-lover ... It is a guide to the future. To a good life.' John Lewis-Stempel
Main title:
Along came a llama / Ruth Janette Ruck.
Author:
Ruck, Ruth Janette, author
Work:
Imprint:
London : Faber & Faber, 2020.
Collation:
324 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9780571363193 (hbk)9780571363209 (ePub ebook)
Dewey class:
636.296636.296 RUC
LC class:
SF401.L6
Language:
English
Subject:
Ruck, Ruth JanetteLlamas as petsHuman-animal relationships -- Great BritainFarming and Country LifeDomestic animals & petsAgriculture & farmingOrganic farmingThe countryside, country life: general interestFarm & working animals: general interestMemoirsAnimal husbandryHumourWildlife: general interestWildlife: mammals: general interestNature & the natural world: general interest
BRN:
534429