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On Animals
Engelsk Paperback
On Animals
Engelsk Paperback

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''Every essay in this book is magnificent... Mesmerizing.'' New York Times

''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 neighbours 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.

Equal parts delightful and profound, enriched by Orlean''s stylish prose and precise research, these stories celebrate the meaningful cross-species connections that grace our collective existence.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
256
ISBN-13:
9781838955489
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1838955488
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
21 jul 2022
Længde:
23mm
Bredde:
198mm
Højde:
128mm
Forlag:
Atlantic Books
Oplagsdato:
21 jul 2022
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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