Description
Book SynopsisHuman beings share the earth with many other living creatures and have dealt with them in many different ways. Animals have furnished humans with food, done their work, aroused their curiosity, provided them with sport, stimulated their sense of beauty, and provoked their wonder. They have also shared affection, when both the human and animal have decided to give it. No less varied or avoidable are the attitudes humans have developed toward these creatures.
This collection of writings selected from a vast literature about animals is also about the people who have been inspired to write on that subject. Sometimes consciously and sometimes unconsciously the writer implies an answer to one or more of the questions that any concern with an animal must raise, such as: What is an animal''s place in nature? Are they here primarily to serve as a food source? Do they possess inherent rights and privileges? How are they alike or different from humans? The answers to these questions are
Table of Contents
Introduction; One: Profiles and Portraits; Two: Hunters and Sportsmen; Three: The Wide Wide World; Four: Cruelty and Fellow Feeling; Five: Legends, Fantasies, and Fictions; Six: From Aristotle to Darwin To?; Seven: Destruction and Conservation; Eight: Head and Heart
