Children and Other Wild Animals: Notes on badgers, otters, sons, hawks, daughters, dogs, bears, air, bobcats, fishers, mascots, Charles Darwin, newts, ... tigers and various other zoological matters

By Brian Doyle

Book Overview

In Children and Other Wild Animals, bestselling novelist BrianDoyle (Mink River, The Plover) describes encounters with astoundingbeings of every sort and shape. These true tales of animals and humanmammals (generally the smaller sizes, but here and there elders andjumbos) delightfully blur the line between the two. In these shortvignettes, Doyle explores the seethe of life on this startling planet,the astonishing variety of our riveting companions, and the joysavailable to us when we pause, see, savor, and celebrate the smallthings that are not small in the least.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870717545
• ISBN13: 9780870717543
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Oregon State University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.4"