Article: Our summer reading list.(Review)

A selection of books that the editors of T&C believe are worth taking along -- and taking a long look at -- wherever you happen to find yourself this August.

in the garden

We never thought chickens were hams until we laid eyes on Tamara Staples's splendid photographs of prizewinning poultry in The Fairest Fowl (Chronicle Books; $14.95). Her amusing book not only reveals thirty-five rulers of the roost in all their plucky--yet unplucked--glory; it also details each subject's breed, history, origin and physical characteristics (and includes a critical essay by Ira Glass on the show-chicken's bible, the American Standard of Perfection). * Dan Snow's In the ...

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