No Place Like Home: A New Beginning with the Dogs of Afghanistan - Hardcover

Pen Farthing

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9780091928834: No Place Like Home: A New Beginning with the Dogs of Afghanistan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0091928834 ISBN 13: 9780091928834

Publisher: Ebury Press, 2010

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About the Author:

A passion for the outdoors and a love of doing everything the hard way caused Pen Farthing to pop into a Royal Marine careers office one day aged 18 to take on the toughest infantry training in the world to earn the coveted Green Beret of the Commandos. His military career, which has included tours of Iraq and Afghanistan, lasted over twenty years. Since publication of the Sunday Times bestseller One Dog at a Time, Pen has left the Marines to run his charity Nowzad Dogs and - when time allows - an outdoor adventure company. Pen is married to Lisa and they share their home with five dogs.Pen Farthing has won The Dogs Trust Dog's Best Friend Award and the IFAW Pets and People Award. His dogs Nowzad and Tali were nominated for the Crufts Friends for Life Award. More details about Nowzad Dogs can be found at www.nowzaddogs.com.

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"Pen Farthing is absolutely wonderful, really truly my kind of hero" -- Jilly Cooper "Pen's is a courageous story of how dog and solider become best friends in the most volatile of places and the unbreakable bond that exists between them. His commitment to his is work in Afghanistan is inspirational, and he is transforming dogs and our soldiers' lives too" -- Cesar Millan

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