Travels with Our Fellow Creatures [Hardcover]

Various (Author), Phyllis Hobe (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 15, 1999

For the love of animals--stories and poems by Cleveland Amory, Diane Ackerman, Robert Graves, John Steinbeck, Dian Fossey, Ernest Hemingway, and many others.

Sure to be a treasured volume in every home library, this unique collection of classic and contemporary writings explores the bonds between mankind and the rest of the animal world. Featuring an exciting and diverse group of talents, the stories and poems offer an endless variety of ways we can understand the relationship we have with our fellow creatures--a relationship by turns heartfelt and hostile, cautious and caring, respectful and fierce. Travels with Our Fellow Creatures is a masterful menagerie--sure to provoke tears, laughter, and much thought about those who walk, swim, and fly the planet with us.

The complete list of authors: * Diane Ackerman * Cleveland Amory * May Sarton * John Wright * J.R. Ackerley * Gary Allen Sledge * James Thurber * Rudyard Kipling * Anton Chekhov * Robert Graves * Willie Morris * MacKinlay Kantor * Hector Chevigny * Paul Gallico * John Steinbeck * Floyd Skloot * Hope Ryden * Dian Fossey * Farley Mowat * Sterling North * Jack London * Ernest Hemingway * Elizabeth Marshall Thomas * Roger Caras * Walt Whitman * Fred Bodsworth * Christina Rossetti * Alden Stevens * Barry Lopez * Albert Schweitzer

* Beautifully packaged--makes a great gift

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About the Author

Phyllis Hobe, a writer specializing in nature and inspirational nonfiction books, has also compiled several anthologies, and is a contributor to Guideposts magazine and Daily Guideposts, an annual collection of daily devotionals.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 304 pages
• Publisher: Perigee Trade; Perigee hardcover ed edition (October 15, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0399525513
• ISBN-13: 978-0399525513
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.2 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,944,381 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Classic Animal Stories, February 2, 2002

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Jena Ball "Jena Ball" (North Carolina, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Travels with Our Fellow Creatures (Paperback)

If you're looking for a good book of animal stories to curl up with by the fire this would be a good choice. The authors are all old favorites and include Cleveland Amory, Jack London, May Sarton, Farley Mowat, John Steinbeck, Dian Fossey and Ernest Hemingway. In that respect, the book is a little too predictable for anyone who has done much reading in the genre. Like me, you will undoubtedly recognize Sarton's "Fur Person," Kipling's "Garm-A Hostage," Amory's "The Cat Who Came to Christmas," and London's "White Fang." However, there were some pleasant surprises, such as the poetry by Walt Whitman, Floyd Skloot and Robert Graves, and the fact that I had read about Mowat's adventures with his wolves didn't make me enjoy them any less.

Expect no great surprises or revelations, with the possible exception of Diane Ackerman's close encounter with a right whale. Even the excerpt from Barry Lopez's ordinarily luminous prose is merely a short, ho hum essay on land ownership. This is bascially a feel good book (best to keep kleenex at your side), and if you take it as such, you won't be disappointed.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars These Are Stories That You Won't Forget, February 14, 2002

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Judith Miller (Bluemont, VA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Travels with Our Fellow Creatures (Hardcover)

This is a diverse collection of literature for animal lovers. Many of the pieces were written by some of our most gifted writers. Some of these are poems and short stores and others are excerpts taken from longer books.

Here's a sampling of some of my favorite selections: In A SNAPSHOT OF REX, James Thurber remembers his American Bull Terrier who was "a tremendous fighter", and completely loyal to Thurber and his two brothers - Cleveland Armory tells about a stray cat who needed rescuing in THE CAT WHO CAME FOR CHRISTMAS - John Steinbeck's dog , Charley was the best of companions in TRAVELS WITH CHARLEY - in GORILLAS IN THE MIDST, Dian Fossey relates anecdotes about a monkey named Kima, who with Primus, an antelope shared their space with her dog, Cindy, a boxer mix - and in a remarkable story, Rudyard Kipling writes about an extremely intelligent dog who's master gave him as a gift to another man to repay a debt in GARM-A HOSTAGE.

There are also selections from Jack London, Willie Morris, and Ernest Hemingway. Very enjoyable reading!