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Brocky by Sylvia Shepherd
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Content-Type |
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Badger Experience |
Description
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Brocky, a tiny badger cub, was barely a
week old when he arrived in the middle of the night in the Shepherd household.
Brought up in a shoebox by the man who found him, he was about eight inches long
and weighed only a few ounces. To Sylvia Shepherd, her husband and her two
children, he immediately became the centre of their lives. After being
hand-reared, he lived with the family, going for walks with them, exploring the
wilderness of their garden, playing with the children by the fire, and even
occupying their beds. But, as he gradually grew bigger he began to explore the
world for himself, and the inevitable and painful decision had to be taken that
he should be returned to the wild.
There the story might have ended - except that having returned to the wild,
Brocky would still return to the Shepherd household from time to time. |
Summary |
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Sylvia Shepherd has a great gift for
describing the Lakeland countryside, and the wild life of its woodlands and
fells throughout the changing seasons. It might be long out of print, but this
is a genuinely good book about the companionship of a wild badger. |
Written by |
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Sylvia Shepherd |
Illustrated by |
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Sylvia Shepherd |
Photographs by |
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Sylvia Shepherd |
Written in |
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1964 |
Last Revised in |
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1964 |
Size |
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228mm by 154mm (height by width) |
Pages |
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78 |
ISBN |
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None |
Publisher |
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Longmans, Green & Co |
Copyright Owner |
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Sylvia Shepherd |
In Print? |
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Out of Print |
Review Date |
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18 October 2005 |
Front and Cover
Copyright |
Copyright in these images is retained
by their owners. Images are shown so you can see what the item looks like
or if you need inspiration to create your own original badger artwork. |
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