Build Me an Ark: A Life with Animals

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W. W. Norton & Company, 2001 - 317 sidor
The memoir of a life among animals by a nature writer who has studied dolphins, whales, and orcas and worked for the restoration of wolves in Arizona, Yellowstone, and Alaska. Rather than mere autobiography or a scientific or political tract, her work is a kind of love story that describes the bond she's felt with animals since childhood. Peterson traces some of the cavalier and cruel ways humans have treated other species, but her purpose is not to browbeat; instead, she points the way to a rich alternative in which people interact with the natural world in a spirit of compassion and cooperation.

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Slipstream
17
The Wild
37
Grandmother Grizzlies and God
51
Build Me an Ark
61
The Real Smokey Bear
73
Promised Land
87
Domestic Happiness with Dogs
101
Wolves in the Desert
115
Wolf Summits
181
The Return
197
Wolves in Our Backyard
217
Spin of the Dolphin
233
When Humpbacks Sing
255
Lone Sociable
269
Silkie
293
Animal Mundi
303

Cats in the Rain Shadow
137
An Afterlife of Animals
161
Help to Build a New Ark for the Animals
315
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Sida 15 - Not to hurt our humble brethren is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission — to be of service to them wherever they require it.
Sida 9 - Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

Om författaren (2001)

Brenda Peterson is the author of three novels and two collections of essays, Living by Water and Nature and Other Mothers. She lives in Seattle.

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