Alfred Ollivant's Bob, son of Battle

By Lydia Davis

Subjects: JUVENILE FICTION / Classics, Great britain, history, fiction, Farm life, fiction, Dogs, fiction, JUVENILE FICTION / Fairy Tales & Folklore / Adaptations, Farm life, Dogs, Fiction, Children's fiction, JUVENILE FICTION / Animals / Dogs, Sheep dogs, History

Description: On the border of Scotland and England beginning in the early 1880s, two sheep farmers and their sheepdogs engage in a years-long battle to prove their superiority in handling sheep--a battle which must end in death.