On Animals

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Call Number: 591.5 Or, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Science & Nature / Animals / Miscellaneous
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Westgate Branch

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	591.5 Or	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Westgate Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Nonfiction / Science & Nature / Animals / Miscellaneous	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Malletts Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Nonfiction / Science & Nature / Animals / Miscellaneous	4-week checkout	Due 05-23-2024
Traverwood Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Nonfiction / Science & Nature / Animals / Miscellaneous	4-week checkout	Due 05-21-2024

"These pieces originally appeared in slightly modified form in The New Yorker, Smithsonian, the Atlantic, and as an Amazon Original"--Copyright page.
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.
'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.
Contents: It bird. -- Show dog. -- Lady and the tigers. -- Riding high. -- Little wing. -- Animal action. -- Where's Willy? -- Carbonaro and primavera. -- Lifelike. -- Lion whisperer. -- Rabbit outbreak. -- Perfect beast. -- Lost dog. -- Where donkeys deliver. -- Farmville.

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I will read anything that Susan Orlean writes submitted by tuttlium on June 16, 2023, 11:25am Basically the title. I would never have picked up this book on the subject alone, but Susan Orlean is just that good. If you like animals, there's a lot here to love. Even if you don't particularly care about animals, you will enjoy this book. I genuinely laughed out loud multiple times when reading it.

Amazing Essays submitted by JJM.Deucher on July 23, 2023, 8:17am Essays on animals - familiar and unfamiliar. Orlean is a great story teller and the books chapters are stand alone pieces that are knitted together into a page turner or a book.