{"product_id":"coffee-table-book-of-cows-hardcover","title":"Coffee Table Book of: Cows (Hardcover)","description":"\u003cp\u003eCoffee Table Book of: Cows is a large-format coffee table book about cattle, printed edge to edge in colour, one picture to a page and the widest carried across two. Most are breed portraits, out in open country.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt begins with the breeds of the British Isles: two Belted Galloways standing well apart on a hillside, a red Hereford bull with a white face, a golden-and-white Guernsey on a clifftop above the sea, black Aberdeen Angus grazing, and an English Longhorn, its horns curving down around its face.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen the breeds of continental Europe: a creamy-white Charolais bull, a white Chianina bull above a valley of cypresses and olive groves, a Brown Swiss below snowy peaks, and Holstein Friesians grazing beside a long, straight ditch.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen those of South Asia: a mottled red-and-white Gir with a domed forehead and long, curled ears, and two white Ongole bulls standing well apart. Of the Americas: a Texas Longhorn with horns spreading wide over dry grass and prickly pear, a pale grey Brahman bull with long, drooping ears, and a white Blanco Orejinegro with black ears.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen horn, hump and hide: a Hungarian Grey bull's lyre-shaped horns seen head-on, the ringed base of a horn, the tall hump of a white Ongole bull, the deep folds of a Gir cow's dewlap, a dark eye fringed with pale lashes, a wet muzzle, a Highland's long red coat beaded with rain, and cloven hooves in clear, shallow water.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen the calves: a Belted Galloway calf close beside its mother, white Charolais calves lying together in long grass, a Jersey calf with big, fuzzy ears, a pale Brahman calf beside its grey mother, and two red-and-white calves side by side in straw.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToward the end, the seasons and the weather: cattle grazing among buttercups, a Red Poll in tall grass and ox-eye daisies, a roan Shorthorn among fallen yellow leaves, black cattle with snow lying on their backs, the frosted muzzle and steaming breath of a red cow, and a chestnut Pinzgauer on a misty mountain pasture at dawn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShort notes run through the book. They are about cattle rather than about the pictures: what the word Wagyu means, what a zebu's hump is made of, how long a cow carries her calf, and what the tuft at the end of her tail is called and why she swings it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrinted in full colour on heavy 150gsm coated paper at 216 x 279 mm (8.5 x 11 inches), as a hardcover with the art printed on the case.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cedar Pine Editions","offers":[{"title":"Case Bound - PPC","offer_id":68147154846000,"sku":"9671456003702","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0262\/2357\/5085\/files\/9671456003702.jpg?v=1792612327","url":"https:\/\/www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk\/products\/coffee-table-book-of-cows-hardcover","provider":"The Great British Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}