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On animals / Susan Orlean.
'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 worldâ‚‚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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781982181536
- ISBN: 1982181532
- Physical Description: 241 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition: First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Avid Reader Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2021.
- Copyright: ©2021
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "These pieces originally appeared in slightly modified form in The New Yorker, Smithsonian, the Atlantic, and as an Amazon Original"--Copyright page. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Human-animal relationships. Animals > Social aspects. Orlean, Susan. Orlean, Susan > Anecdotes. Human-animal relationships > Anecdotes. Animals > Anecdotes. Animal behavior. |
| Genre: | Anecdotes. Essays. |
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- 21 of 21 copies available at Missouri Evergreen.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| North Kansas City Public Library | 591.5 ORLEAN 2021 (Text) | 0001002382677 | Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Adair County Public Library | A 590 Orl (Text) | 34029002657251 | Non Fiction | Available | - |
| Cape Girardeau Public Library | 590 ORL (Text) | 33042004788728 | Adult Non-Fiction | Available | - |
| Caruthersville Public Library | 591.5 ORL (Text) | 38417100546946 | Non-Fiction | Available | - |
| Cass County Library-Northern Resource Center | 591.5 ORL 2021 (Text) | 0002205444157 | Adult Non-Fiction | Available | - |
| Howard County Public Library | 591.5 (Text) | 34658000239264 | Non-Fiction | Available | - |
| Jefferson County Library-Arnold | 591.5 ORLEAN (Text) | 3006110000104 | Non-Fiction | Available | - |
| Jefferson County Library-Northwest | 591.5 ORLEAN (Text) | 30051100001103 | Non-Fiction | Available | - |
| Jefferson County Library-Windsor | 591.5 ORLEAN (Text) | 3006510000111 | Non-Fiction | Available | - |
| Lebanon-Laclede County Library | 591.5 Orlean (Text) | 3803769388 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
