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On animals / Susan Orlean.

Orlean, Susan, (author.).

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 escaped. 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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781982181536
  • ISBN: 1982181532
  • ISBN: 9781982181543
  • 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.

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.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
Subject: Human-animal relationships.
Animals > Social aspects.
Orlean, Susan.
Orlean, Susan > Anecdotes.
Human-animal relationships > Anecdotes.
Animals > Anecdotes.
Animal behavior.
Genre: Anecdotes.

Available copies

  • 34 of 35 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

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Albright Memorial Library 591.9 ORLEAN (Text) 50686016103918 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Alexander Hamilton Memorial Free Library 591.5 ORL (Text) 37268003116803 AHMFL Adult Non-Fiction Available -
Bangor Public Library 590 ORL (Text) 75011000363835 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Blossburg Memorial Library 591.5 ORL (Text) 30063000257420 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Boyertown Community Library 590 ORL (Text) 33249024820205 Non-fiction Available -
Cambria County Library 591.5 O712o (Text) 85131001795179 CACM Non-Fiction Available -
Degenstein Community Library NF 591.5 ORLEAN (Text) 35031301211510 Adult Non-Fiction Available -
Dillsburg Area Public Library Adults 591.5 ORL Nonfiction (Text) 34001001403193 Adult Area Available -
Emmaus Public Library 591.5 ORLE (Text) 36446002050139 Adult Nonfiction Available -
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