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Children & other wild animals : notes on badgers, otters, sons, hawks, daughters, dogs, bears, air, bobcats, fishers, mascots, Charles Darwin, newts, sturgeon, roasting squirrels, parrots, elk, foxes, tigers, and various other zoological matters / Brian Doyle ; edited & with a foreword by Cort Conley ; drawings by Mary Miller Doyle.

Van Pelt Library PS3604.O9547 A6 2014
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Doyle, Brian, 1956 November 6-2017 May 27, author.
Contributor:
Conley, Cort, 1944- editor.
Doyle, Mary Miller, illustrator.
Standardized Title:
Essays. Selections
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Essays.
Genre:
Essays.
Physical Description:
163 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Other Title:
Children and other wild animals
Place of Publication:
Corvallis : Oregon State University Press, [2014]
Summary:
"Novelist and essayist Brian Doyle describes encounters with astounding beings of every sort and shape in this collection of short vignettes. The book gathers previously unpublished work along with selections that have been published in Orion, The Sun, and The American Scholar" -- provided by publisher.
Contents:
A newt note
In otter words
Imagining foxes
Fishering
Walk the pup
Twenty things the dog ate
A note on mascots
The unspoken language of the eyes
The bishop's parrot
The creature beyond the mountains
The Elkometer
This particular badger
Cyrus
Joyas volardores
Raptorous
Reading the birds
The slather
Tigers
The hymn of him
Lost dog creek
The anchoviad
Mammalian observation project : subject J
Things my kids have said that they do not know I know they said
Best napper of the year
The brilliant floor
The killer of jays
Maschinenpistole
My salt farm
How to start your kitchen garden
Melting a car
Unfishing
The greatest nature essay ever
What the air carries
Charlie Darwin's Garden
My land
In the hills of Willamina
The best soccer player in the world ...
A note on cricket
My hero?
The thaw
The hawk
Moose poop
That chickadee must be from Chicago
A moment
Sandy
Hypoxia
What does the Earth ask of us.
ISBN:
9780870717543
0870717545
OCLC:
886673025

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