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Guide to Cats of the World
Howard Loxton
Chartwell Books
Nonfiction, Cats
***
Guide to the cats of the world

DESCRIPTION: A guide to the many domestic cat breeds, with color illustrations. This book also includes notes on cat history and cat care.

REVIEW: This is an adequate book in the text department, but I found the drawn illustrations unhelpful in visualizing the real breeds. I prefer photo guides. The cat care section is okay, but it seems a bit outdated in portions. The Britishness of this book, from breed standards to cat care, is also prominent, and as an American I find it unhelpful at best and distracting at worst. If you have to have a breed guide and can't find anything else, this book will help, but quite frankly I'd hold out for better.

You might also enjoy:
Eyewitness Handbook: Cats (David Alderton, Nonfiction - Cat breed guide with photographs)
The Mini-Atlas of Cats (Andrew DePrisco and James B. Johnson, Nonfiction - A guide to cats domestic and wild)
The ASPCA Cat Care Manual (Andrew Edney, B.M.V., Nonfiction - Cat care)
Secrets of the Cat (Barbara Holland, Nonfiction - Cat guide and anecdote collection)
Good Owners, Great Cats (Brian Kilcommons and Sarah Wilson, Nonfiction - Raising and owning well-adjusted cats)
Cat Breeds of the World (Desmond Morris, Nonfiction - Cat breeds popular and obscure)
The Cat Who Couldn't See in the Dark (Howard Padwee, D.V.M. and Valerie Moolman, Nonfiction - A vet recalls stories of feline patients and their owners)
Cats for Dummies(Gina Spadafori and Paul D. Pion, DVM, DACVIM, Nonfiction - Cat care)
Simon & Schuster's Guide to Cats (Mordecai Siegal, editor, Nonfiction - Cat guide)

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