Alfred Ollivant's Bob, son of Battle
Subtitle: the last gray dog of Kenmuir
By: a new version by Lydia Davis ; illustrated by Marguerite Kirmse
Contributors: Ollivant, Alfred, 1874-1927; Kirmse, Marguerite, 1885-1954, illustrator
Series: New York Review children's collection
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9781590177297
Subjects: Sheep dogs; Farm life; Dogs; Fiction; History
Other titles: Bob, son of Battle
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.