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| The Wild Animal Story (Animals, Culture, & Society) | 
| Creator: Ralph H. Lutts
Publisher: Temple University Press
Category: Book
List Price: $22.95
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Sales Rank: 1900702
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 6.2 x 0.9
ISBN: 1566399181
Dewey Decimal Number: 810
EAN: 9781566399180
ASIN: 1566399181
Publication Date: September 2001
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Product Description
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the wild animal story emerged in Canadian literature as a distinct genre, in which animals pursue their own interests survival for themselves, their offspring, and perhaps a mate, or the pure pleasure of their wildness. Bringing together some of the most celebrated wild animal stories, Ralph H. Lutts places them firmly in the context of heated controversies about animal intelligence and purposeful behavior. Widely regarded as entertaining and educational, the early stories by Charles G. D. Roberts, Ernest Thompson Seton, John Muir, Jack London and others had an avid readership among adults and children.But some naturalists and at least one hunter Theodore Roosevelt discredited these writers as 'nature fakers', accusing them of falsely portraying animal behavior. The stories and commentaries collected here span the twentieth century. As present day animal behaviorists, psychologists, and the public attempt to sort out the meaning of what animals do and our obligations to them, Ralph Lutts maps some of the prominent features of our cultural landscape. The tales include: "The Springfield Fox" by Ernest Thompson Seton; "The Sounding of the Call" by Jack London; "Stickeen" by John Muir; and "Journey to the Sea" by Rachel Carson. Other selections include esssays by Theoore Roosevelt, John Burroughs, Margaret Atwood, and Ralph H. Lutts. Author note: Ralph H. Lutts, Associate Faculty, Goddard College Off-Campus BA./MA Program and Adjunct Faculty, University of Virginia, Division of Continuing Education, is the author of "The Nature Fakers: Wildlife, Science, and Sentiment".
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