Along Came a Llama

Informationen zum Autor Ruth Janette Ruck Klappentext This charming rediscovered gem in the tradition of All Creatures Great and Small tells the heartwarming tale of how a baby llama transformed a Welsh farming family forever. Things llamas like: Slurping up cherry brandy, Easter chocolate, and Dad's favorite magazine. Curling up in ball on the rug by the fire. Orbiting, helicoptering, and oompahing. > Things llamas dislike: Being adopted mother to an orphaned lamb. Invitations to star on children's TV shows. Dreadful British weather. > Ruth Ruck's family live on a rural farm, tucked into the mountains of Wales, no strangers to cow pats on the carpet and nesting hens in the pantry. 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 portrait 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 Vorwort 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 (with a foreword by John Lewis-Stempel) Zusammenfassung My Family and Other Animals meets The Secret Life of Cows: this rediscovered gem of a memoir tells the charming tale of how a baby llama transformed a Welsh farming family forever.

Product details

• Authors: Ruth Janette Ruck, Ruck Ruth Janette
• Assisted by: John Lewis-Stempel (Introduction), Lewis-Stempel John (Introduction)
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2020
• EAN: 9780571363193
• ISBN: 978-0-571-36319-3
• No. of pages: 324
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 21 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; HUMOR / Topic / Animals, NATURE / Animals / Mammals, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / Animal Husbandry, Nature & the natural world: general interest, Organic Farming, Farm & working animals, The countryside, country life, Nature and the natural world: general interest, Animal life stories, Farm and working animals: general interest, Farm & working animals: general interest