{"product_id":"children-other-wild-animals-notes-on-badgers-otters-sons-hawks-daughters-dogs-bears-air-bobcats-fishers-mascots-charles-darwin-newts-s-paperback","title":"Children \u0026 Other Wild Animals: Notes on Badgers, Otters, Sons, Hawks, Daughters, Dogs, Bears, Air, Bobcats, Fishers, Mascots, Charles Darwin, Newts, S - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBrian Doyle\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eChildren and Other Wild Animals\u003c\/i\u003e, bestselling novelist Brian Doyle (\u003ci\u003eMink River, The Plover\u003c\/i\u003e) describes encounters with astounding beings of every sort and shape. These true tales of animals and human mammals (generally the smaller sizes, but here and there elders and jumbos) delightfully blur the line between the two. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In these short vignettes, Doyle explores the seethe of life on this startling planet, the astonishing variety of our riveting companions, and the joys available to us when we pause, see, savor, and celebrate the small things that are not small in the least. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Doyle's trademark quirky prose is at once lyrical, daring, and refreshing; his essays poignant but not pap, sharp but not sermons, and revelatory at every turn. Throughout there is humor and humility and a palpable sense of wonder, with passages of reflection so true and hard earned they make you stop and reread a line, a paragraph, a page. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eChildren \u0026amp; Other Wild Animals\u003c\/i\u003e gathers previously unpublished work with selections that have appeared in \u003ci\u003eOrion, The Sun, Utne Reader, High Country News\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe American Scholar\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as \u003ci\u003eBest American Essays\u003c\/i\u003e (\"The Greatest Nature Essay Ever\") and \u003ci\u003eBest American Nature and Science Writing\u003c\/i\u003e (\"Fishering\"). \"The Creature Beyond the Mountain,\" Doyle's paean to the mighty and mysterious sturgeon of the Pacific Northwest, won the John Burroughs Award for Outstanding Nature Essay. As he notes in that tribute to all things \"sturgeonness\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Sometimes you want to see the forest and not the trees. Sometimes you find yourself starving for what's true, and not about a person but about all people. This is how religion and fascism were born, but it's also why music is the greatest of arts, and why stories matter, and why we all cannot help staring at fires and great waters.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrian Doyle is the author of many books, including the novels \u003ci\u003eMink River\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Plover\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Grail\u003c\/i\u003e, his account of a year in a pinot noir vineyard in Oregon; and \u003ci\u003eThe Wet Engine\u003c\/i\u003e, a memoir about his infant son's heart surgery and the young doctor who saved his life. He edits \u003ci\u003ePortland Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e at the University of Portland.\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.39 x 8.43 x 5.43 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award (2016)\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Oregon Book Awards (2016)\u003c\/div\u003e\n                ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51758110703904,"sku":"9780870717543","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/f55bbd1e3c1e054311cb04f928248007.webp?v=1780118280","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/children-other-wild-animals-notes-on-badgers-otters-sons-hawks-daughters-dogs-bears-air-bobcats-fishers-mascots-charles-darwin-newts-s-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}