An Estate Car Named Desire: A Life on the Road

Gurdon, Martin

Gerald Duckworth Co Ltd

What is the Perfect Pong?

Perfect Pong Publishing

Owning chickens is fast becoming the latest in metropolitan chic. If you can't own them, you'll still want to read about them-witness the recent success of books such as Extraordinary Chickens and Living With Chickens. Another book is soon to hit the poultry bestseller list: This hilarious account of a rookie poultry-owner's experience raising birds in his backyard. Move over Julia Roberts and Brad Pitt (both rumored to raise chickens), Martin Gurdon has written the first "chicken memoir" of its kind. Bound to be a classic, Hen and the Art of Chicken Maintenance follows the Gurdon family through the ups and downs of this wonderful hobby. In addition to providing eggs, the hens offer distractions from everyday life-BB has terrific telephone etiquette, the spirited but weak Yvette requires Gurdon to act as a personal trainer, and Wimpy is soon renamed Psycho when she's allowed to brood three of her eggs. The book chronicles the daily life of a chicken, including dust baths, brutal pecking-order rituals, gender-bending encounters, and, for its owner, the possibility of huge vet bills. The relationship between bird and human is by turns heartwarming and bewildering, but always entertaining. In fact, readers might even learn a thing or two about raising chickens in this lively book.

Hen and the Art of Chicken Maintenance: Reflections on Keeping Chickens

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Pets & Animal Care

Lyons Pr

James Herriot meets Bill Bryson in this hilarious account of one man''s relationship with his chickens.

Hen And The Art Of Chicken Maintenance: Reflections On Raising Chickens

When Martin Gurdon''s previous book, Hen and the Art of Chicken Maintenance, was published, he and his chicken, Tikka, decided to embark on a one-man, one-bird, whistle-stop tour from the Southeast of England to Edinburgh in Scotland, via a children''s nursery, a home for old soldiers, and numerous women''s institute meetings. This trip was the inspiration behind his latest book, Travels with My Chicken, a delightful story about just how far some authors will go to get their books noticed, and the highs and lows of being out on the road with only a chicken for company. Gurdon travels from Tunbridge Wells, England, to Aberystwyth, Scotland, promoting his first book by any means possible, including a huge wooden cartoon chicken stuck to the roof of his car. The weeks he spends zinging from one part of the country to another with a chicken in an old cat box soon make him realize that he has another book in the making. Wasn''t it interesting, for example, that all his interviewers asked him virtually the same questions. Would he eat his traveling companion, or any other member of his flock? (No.) Did he eat his chickens after they were dead? (Heck no.) Not only does having a chicken on hand land Gurdon into the world of morning television and radio, but it also introduces him to people he wouldn''t ordinarily talk with, such as a gaggle of bored teenagers in a bookshop, or prison inmates contemplating the literary life. The end result is a hilarious and heartwarming book about people and places as much as it is about chickens.

Travels With My Chicken: A Man And His Companion Take To The Road

Owning chickens is fast becoming the latest in metropolitan chic. If you can't own them, you'll still want to read about them. Primal urges, the quest for ultimate power, sex, death, gender bending, and huge vet bills―these are the things that chickens are made of. Martin Gurdon's hilarious Hen and the Art of Chicken Maintenance relives the highs and lows of chicken ownership. This unique chicken memoir follows the Gurdon family through the ups and downs of a wonderful hobby. In addition to providing eggs, the hens offer distractions from everyday life. You'll meet a cast of unusual characters, from the frightening disciplinary measures of Bossy Chicken, and the maternal instincts of Psycho Chicken, to the bizarre tales of Mike the headless chicken from Colorado, and the physical rehabilitation and sexual transformation of Yvette. The relationship between bird and human is by turns heartwarming and bewildering, but always entertaining. In fact, readers might even learn a thing or two about raising chickens in this lively book. Inside Hen and the Art of Chicken Maintenance, Updated Second Edition Hilarious account of a rookie poultry-owner's experience raising birds in his backyard. James Herriot meets Bill Bryson in this wryly amusing memoir of one man's relationship with his chickens. Chronicles the daily life of a chicken, including dust baths, brutal pecking-order rituals, gender-bending encounters, and for its owner the possibility of huge vet bills. Updated second edition features new photographs and a new chapter. A must for chicken lovers and a must for anyone with a quirky sense of humor. Beyond the laughs there are even some practical lessons to be learnt about what not to do when keeping chickens!

Hen and the Art of Chicken Maintenance: Reflections on a Life of Raising Chickens, Update Second Edition (CompanionHouse Books) Hilarious, Entertaining Memoir of the Highs and Lows of Keeping Chickens

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

CompanionHouse Books

Doing Bird

Constable Robinson

Instantly acquire all the knowledge you need to pass as an expert in the world of automobiles with Bluffer's Guide to Cars. Never again confuse your trunnions with your gudgeon pins, your big end with your locknuts, or your depressed hydraulic lifers with your floppy tappets. Bask in the admiration of your fellow car 'experts' as you pronounce confidently on the merits of the Yjob over the Tucker Torpedo and hold your own against the most opinionated of gearheads.

Bluffer's Guide to Cars: Instant Wit and Wisdom (Bluffer's Guides)

Haynes Publishing, UK

There's no escape from chickens. They're everywhere (although Bahrain has the highest human to chicken ratio at 40 to 1). You'll find plenty of other often-hilarious facts together with practical, historical and cultural information in The Bluffer's Guide to Chicken Keeping, which lifts the cooking pot lid on the lives, lusts and quirks on the world's most successful species of bird.

Bluffer's Guide to Chicken Keeping: Instant Wit and Wisdom (Bluffer's Guides)

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