| Description |
409 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Physical Medium |
large print (16 point) rda |
| Series |
Thorndike Press large print nonfiction |
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Thorndike Press large print nonfiction series.
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| Note |
"These pieces originally appeared in slightly modified form in The New Yorker, Smithsonian, the Atlantic, and as an Amazon Original" -- Copyright page. |
| Contents |
Introduction: animalish -- The it bird -- Show dog -- The lady and the tigers -- Riding high -- Little wing -- Animal action -- Where's Willy? -- Carbonaro and primavera -- Lifelike -- Lion whisperer -- The rabbit outbreak -- The perfect beast -- Lost dog -- Where donkeys deliver -- Farmville. |
| Summary |
'How we interact with animals has preoccupied philosophers, poets, and naturalists for ages,' writes Susan Orlean. Since the age of six, when Orlean wrote and illustrated a book called Herbert the Near-Sighted Pigeon, she's been drawn to stories about how we live with animals, and how they abide by us. Now, in On Animals, she examines animal-human relationships through the compelling tales she has written over the course of her celebrated career. These stories consider a range of creatures, the household pets we dote on, the animals we raise to end up as meat on our plates, the creatures who could eat us for dinner, the various tamed and untamed animals we share our planet with who are central to human life. In her own backyard, Orlean discovers the delights of keeping chickens. In a different backyard, in New Jersey, she meets a woman who has twenty-three pet tigers--something none of her neighbors knew about until one of the tigers escapes. In Iceland, the world's most famous whale resists the efforts to set him free; in Morocco, the world's hardest-working donkeys find respite at a special clinic. We meet a show dog and a lost dog and a pigeon who knows exactly how to get home. |
| Subject |
Orlean, Susan.
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Human-animal relationships.
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Animals -- Social aspects.
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Animal behavior.
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| Genre |
Essays.
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Large type books.
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| ISBN |
9781432891947 (hbk.) |
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1432891944 (hbk.) |
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