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Little, Brown & Company
January 2007
On Sale: January 1, 2007
322 pages
ISBN: 031606632X
EAN: 9780316066327
Hardcover
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From one of the finest nature writers at work in America
today-a lyrical, dramatic, illuminating tour of the hidden
domain of wild animals.Whether recalling the experience of
being chased through the Grand Canyon by a bighorn sheep,
swimming with sharks off the coast of British Columbia,
watching a peregrine falcon perform acrobatic stunts at 200
miles per hour, or engaging in a tense face-off with a
mountain lion near a desert waterhole, Craig Childs captures
the moment so vividly that he puts the reader in his
boots.Each of the forty brief, compelling narratives in THE
ANIMAL DIALOGUES focuses on the author's own encounter with
a particular species and is replete with astonishing facts
about the species' behavior, habitat, breeding, and
lifespan. But the glory of each essay lies in Childs's
ability to portray the sometimes brutal beauty of the
wilderness, to capture the individual essence of wild
creatures, to transport the reader beyond the human realm
and deep inside the animal kingdom
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