Home to Roost: A Backyard Farmer Chases Chickens Through the Ages [Hardcover]

Review

“Reading this book is like walking down a quiet corridor of a museum, peeping into this room and that. All manner of curiosities await discovery. Home to Roost is a compulsively readable history of man’s relationship with Gallus domesticus, rich with anecdote, fable, and fact. Sheasley can write, and his lyrical, often droll prose winds around and through the happy maze of fact and fiction he’s constructed. Even as he tackles sobering topics like avian flu and the pat (more…)