On animals / Susan Orlean.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Orlean, Susan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Orlean, Susan.

Human-animal relationships.

Animals--Social aspects.

Animals.

Orlean, Susan--Anecdotes.

Human-animal relationships--Anecdotes.

Animals--Anecdotes.

Animal behavior.

Genre:

Anecdotes.

Essays.

Physical Description:

241 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.

Other Title:

Animals

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Avid Reader Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2021.

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 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:

Machine generated contents note: 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.

Notes:

"These pieces originally appeared in slightly modified form in The New Yorker, Smithsonian, the Atlantic, and as an Amazon Original"--Copyright page.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Scott fund bookplate.

Contains:

Orlean, Susan. It bird.

Orlean, Susan. Show dog.

Orlean, Susan. Lady and the tigers.

Orlean, Susan. Riding high.

Orlean, Susan. Little wing.

Orlean, Susan. Animal action.

Orlean, Susan. Where's Willy?

Orlean, Susan. Carbonaro and primavera.

Orlean, Susan. Lifelike.

Orlean, Susan. Lion whisperer.

Orlean, Susan. Rabbit outbreak.

Orlean, Susan. Perfect beast.

Orlean, Susan. Lost dog.

Orlean, Susan. Where donkeys deliver.

Orlean, Susan. Farmville.

ISBN:

9781982181536

1982181532

OCLC:

1262750927