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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.
- 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 The book gathers previously unpublished work along with selections that have been published in Orion, The Sun, and The American Scholar" -- provided by publisher.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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