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On animals / Susan Orlean.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Avid Reader Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2021Copyright date: ©2021Edition: First Avid Reader Press hardcover editionDescription: 241 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781982181536
  • 1982181532
Other title:
  • Animals
Contained works:
  • Orlean, Susan. It bird
  • Orlean, Susan. Show dog
  • Orlean, Susan. Lady and the tigers
  • Orlean, Susan. Riding high
  • Orlean, Susan. Little wing
  • Orlean, Susan. Animal action
  • Orlean, Susan. Where's Willy?
  • Orlean, Susan. Carbonaro and primavera
  • Orlean, Susan. Lifelike
  • Orlean, Susan. Lion whisperer
  • Orlean, Susan. Rabbit outbreak
  • Orlean, Susan. Perfect beast
  • Orlean, Susan. Lost dog
  • Orlean, Susan. Where donkeys deliver
  • Orlean, Susan. Farmville
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
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 world₂s 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.
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 591.5 O71 Available 33111010578561
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

"Magnificent." -- The New York Times * "Beguiling, observant, and howlingly funny." -- San Francisco Chronicle * "Spectacular." -- Star Tribune (Minneapolis) * "Full of astonishments." -- The Boston Globe

Susan Orlean--the beloved New Yorker staff writer hailed as "a national treasure" by The Washington Post and the author of the New York Times bestseller The Library Book --gathers a lifetime of musings, meditations, and in-depth profiles about animals.

"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.

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.

"These pieces originally appeared in slightly modified form in The New Yorker, Smithsonian, the Atlantic, and as an Amazon Original"--Copyright page.

Includes bibliographical references.

'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 world₂s 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.

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.

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