Shetland Breeds: Lessons in History and Husbandry describes what may be the world’s richest variety of indigenous farm animals, namely the eponymous livestock and fowl of the Shetland Islands--Shetland Ponies, Shetland Cattle, Shetland Sheep, Shetland Goose, Shetland Duck, etc. (There used to be a Shetland Pig, but no more. Ditto a Dog.) As this multi-author volume points out, the evolution/development of these near-subspecies is the remarkable product of natural selection and selective breeding! The book’s contributors include British travel author Andro Linklater; Scottish horse authority Valerie Russell; native Shetlander and island historian James R. Nicholson; and Lawrence Alderson, chairman of Britain’s Rare Breeds Survival Trust. The book holds special interest for the "minor breeds community" throughout the English-speaking world, namely breeders, vets and devotees of rare animals. (ISBN 188 9274 100; Fall ‘00)
A Generous Idea: St. Paul’s School and Seikei Gakuen by David T. Dana III. In 1949, as the world was recovering from World War II, one of America’s oldest elite prep schools invited a school in Japan to send a worthy student to its sylvan campus in New Hampshire. Thus began a relationship between the two schools that now enters its sixth decade. Of the first three Japanese boys to matriculate at St. Paul’s, one became board chairman of Mitsubishi, another Ambassador to the Netherlands and West Germany, the third a distinguished professor of art history at Princeton. This vibrant fifty-year history by a St. Paul’s alumnus will find its audience among other alumni, as well as educators within New England and beyond, and in the international exchange community. (ISBN 188 9274 135; Fall ‘00)
Rights of Our Passage is a cycle of sermons to limn the Christian year. This is the second volume of spiritual reflections by the Rev. Dr. Francis H. Wade, rector of St. Alban’s Episcopal Church in Washington, DC. (Fall ‘00).
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