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23%OFFMark Essig - Lesser Beasts: A Snout-to-Tail History of the Humble Pig - 9780465052745 - 9780465052745
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Lesser Beasts: A Snout-to-Tail History of the Humble Pig

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Description for Lesser Beasts: A Snout-to-Tail History of the Humble Pig Hardcover. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBT; PSVW7; WB; WNCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 151 x 34. Weight in Grams: 448.
Unlike other barnyard animals, which pull plows, give eggs or milk, or grow wool, a pig produces only one thing: meat. Incredibly efficient at converting almost any organic matter into nourishing, delectable protein, swine are nothing short of a gastronomic godsend,yet their flesh is banned in many cultures, and the animals themselves are maligned as filthy, lazy brutes.As historian Mark Essig reveals in Lesser Beasts , swine have such a bad reputation for precisely the same reasons they are so valuable as a source of food: they are intelligent, self-sufficient, and omnivorous. What's more, he argues, we ignore our ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Basic Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780465052745
SKU
9780465052745
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About Mark Essig
Mark Essig holds a Ph.D. in US History from Cornell and is the author of Edison and the Electric Chair. He lives in Asheville, North Carolina.

Reviews for Lesser Beasts: A Snout-to-Tail History of the Humble Pig
Praise for Lesser Beasts: "Broad, well-researched... [An] entertaining study."
Economist "Although history sprawls across countless topics, Essig zeroes in on a long-neglected niche
the pig. In sprightly prose, he tells why the intelligent animal has filled so many plates for so long in so many parts of the world; like good bacon, his book sizzles."
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Best ... Read more

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