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Wild Animals I Have Known

Ernest Thompson Seton

Paperback | Pages: 280 pages

Rating: 4.15 | 953 Users | 86 Reviews

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ISBN:	1599151812 (ISBN13: 9781599151816)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Toronto, Ontario(Canada)

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I haven't reread these stories since when I was a little kid, and they make the same deep impression on me now as they did then. The stories aren't an easy reading, for, as the author warns in the very beginning, the lives of wild animals seldom end peacefully, and they are full of such love of the nature that you really begin to commiserate with every protagonist and share their everyday worries, be that a rabbit, a mustang or even a partridge. The book deals with the minutest details of the lives of animals - I have no idea how much time one have to spend in the wild nature to have such a keen eye - but you will learn more from it about the fauna of North America than from a visit to the museum of natural history.
P.S. If you have a choice between the illustrated version and the text-only, choose the former. Seton's drawings are simple, but very atmospheric.

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Title	:	Wild Animals I Have Known
Author	:	Ernest Thompson Seton
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 280 pages
Published	:	March 8th 2007 by Yesterday's Classics
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Animals. Environment. Nature. Classics. Short Stories

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Ratings: 4.15 From 953 Users | 86 Reviews

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MehIt was very average. The stories were really about animals. I thought it would be a solid story throughout but it was a collection of short stories. Some were very impactful but I just don't think that it was my type of book.

A must-read.Sir David Attenborough wrote, in his forward for Seton's biography Ernest Thompson Seton: The Life and Legacy of an Artist and Conservationist, "I was given a copy of Wild Animals I Have Known when I was eight. I still have it. It was the most precious book of my childhood. I knew very well that the man who wrote it understood the animals he was writing about with an intimacy, perception, and sympathy that was not equaled by any other author that I had read."

I discovered a battered copy of this book in my school library when I was about 10. I found it very...affecting. The book made me angry and sad, but I would return to it over and over as a sort of cathartic. I was not the sort of kid who cried at books or movies, but this book made me cry. I know it affected my writing for a long time, perhaps to this day.

This book was sweet and honest, and I understand why it was a bestseller for many years. Ive read another book, Red Fox, that shares the theme of realistic animal story, and found that both books captured the imagination without being completely anthropomorphic. In this book, the short stories shared truths about life, death and the impact of man on the animal kingdom. These ideas are as true now as they were when this was written in the 1890s - humans are stronger, have greater technology than

Sad but worth itI went into this book knowing that almost every story would end as every life on the planet must: in death. Knowing that didn't make reading it any easier. Seton does a phenomenal job of giving us a glimpse of the life of each animal, often from birth to death. The personification of the animals making it so hard not to fall in love with them. Well written!

Geez, kind of depressing. A 3.5 for making the stories about animals though.

Lots of sex, but searching for connections too.