The moving true story of Perth the beagle.
"My goal was to make her distrust all roads on planet Earth. After training her not to set one paw on the road's surface unless she was with me, I tested her. She soon caught on. Undistracted by people who stopped to watch her she would not budge from the street kerb. I succeeded in making her perfectly streetwise. It was a lesson in the future that would save her life many times over"
Peter Martin was born in Argentina of English parents and educated there and in the US. He has taught English literature on both sides of the Atlantic and written extensively on 18th-century British and American literature and culture. He divides his time between Spain and a house in West Sussex.