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    The Magnificent Chicken: Portraits of the Fairest Fowl
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    The Magnificent Chicken: Portraits of the Fairest Fowl

    By Tamara Staples and Ira Glass

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    With backyard chicken keeping and urban farming at an all-time high, the proudest of purebred poultry take center stage once again in this fully revised and expanded edition of the classic The Fairest Fowl, now retitled The Magnificent Chicken. Updated with even more chickens and an enlarged resource section, this celebration of the wonder, peculiarity, and magnificence of championship chickens showcases more than 40 astonishing breeds in glamorous photos—many brand new—and informative text, while an introduction by Ira Glass explores the finer points of poultry shows and chicken portraiture.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChronicle Books Digital
    Release dateJan 25, 2013
    ISBN9781452125626
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    The Magnificent Chicken: Portraits of the Fairest Fowl
    Author

    Tamara Staples

    Tamara Staples has been photographing championship chickens since 1998. She lives in New York City.

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    • 1/5
      most of the pictures are of poor looking APA birds. The last two, a gold duckwing Araucana and a naked neck silkie were the exception. The other Araucana in the book a silver duckwing was hideous. The Marans had no feathered legs. Nice photography but there just isn't any information here.