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The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild
Craig Childs
#UC0042
Hardcover, 325 pages; 2007
$24.99
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Midway between a suicide leap and a bighorn, I am wondering what exactly I was thinking by walking out here.
I, too, wondered what Craig Childs was thinking when I read of some of his more harrowing adventures in this essay collection. But I’m glad that he did challenge that bighorn sheep in the Grand Canyon—as well as face off with a mountain lion in Arizona, swim with sharks off the coast of British Columbia, and experience other close encounters with a multitude of fascinating creatures. His vivid descriptions of thirty-plus “personal“meetings with different wild animals are as eloquent as they are exciting. Enhanced with Childs’s vast knowledge of the behavior and habitat of each species, The Animal Dialogues is nature writing of the best sort—illuminating as well as absolutely thrilling.
(AG)
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