Product Description

Natural historian and author Robert Hutchinson provides an in-depth study into the history of one of the world's most loved dogs. Combining the photographic talents of renowned pet photographers with the story of the Golden Retriever, For the Love of Golden Retrievers is the "must-have" gift book for all those blessed in life by a Golden Retriever. (approximately 100 full-color photographs)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1190936 in Books
• Published on: 1998-09
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 112 pages

Barbara Branstad, co-author of Retriever Working Certificate Training and exhibitor of Goldens, - AKC Gazette, May 1999
If you collect books on Golden Retrievers, here [is one] that you will want to add to your library. [It] will add a new dimension to your understanding of the Golden, and [is] just plain fun to read. [It] will also make a good gift for both current and prospective Golden owners. For the Love of Golden Retrievers is primarily a photo essay; there is text, but it is the photographs that will capture your heart. My favorite may be the Golden being paddled down the river in a canoe, but the beautiful backlit picture of a wet Golden shaking itself, with the water flying everywhere, is a close second. The photographs are by various professional photographers, and the reproductions are outstanding. None of the individual dogs is identified; they are your dog, my dog, every dog. The text recounts the history of the Golden Retriever and its development by Lord Tweedmouth. As Hutchinson points out, "Breeding was, furthermore, an endeavor that heartily recommended itself to men whose privilege and assurance of innate superiority depended on their own pedigrees. In the class society that was England, nothing was more ostentatiously English than hunting and breeding. Far from being an idle hobby, Lord Tweedmouth's yellow retriever breeding program at Guisachan was a serious and timely affirmation of aristocratic taste and prerogative."

Rochelle Lesser, Webmaster - Land of Gold Webpage, Spring 1999
This is a special prize of a book. On one hand, it contains spectacular color photos from several renowned pet photographers, such as Mark Raycroft, Donna Dannen, and Alan & Sandy Carey. But it also details the history of the Golden Retriever from an author who has spent several years as a research scientist at the American Museum of Natural History.