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The Cow Book - A Story of Life on an Irish Family Farm (Paperback)
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The Cow Book - A Story of Life on an Irish Family Farm (Paperback)
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List price R290
Loot Price R272
Discovery Miles 2 720
You Save R18 (6%)
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Farming has been in John Connell's family for generations, but he
never intended to follow in his father's footsteps. Until, one
winter, he finds himself back on the farm and begins to learn the
ways of the farmer and the way of the cows. Connell records the
hypnotic rhythm of the farming day - cleaning the outhouses,
milking the herd, tending to sickly lambs, helping the cows give
birth. But alongside the routine events, there are the unforeseen
moments when things go wrong: when a calf fails to thrive, when a
sheep goes missing, when illness breaks out, when depression takes
hold, when an argument erupts and things are said that cannot be
unsaid. The Cow Book is the story of a calving season. It is also
the story of the cow itself, from its domestication and worship as
a God by the Ancient Egyptians to the modern practice of mechanized
herds, via the figure of the cowboy, the destruction of the
American buffalo, the demise of the aboriginal jackaroos and the
consequences of BSE. And, above all, it is the story of Connell's
life as a farmer, of his relationship with his birthplace of County
Longford, with the community around the family farm, with the
animals he tends, and with his father.
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