Elephant Slaves and Pampered Parrots: Exotic Animals in Eighteenth-Century Paris (Animals, History, Culture)

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In 1775, a visitor to Laurent Spinacuta's Grande Ménagerie at the annual winter fair in Paris would have seen two tigers, several kinds of monkeys, an armadillo, an ocelot, and a condor--in all, forty-two live animals. In Elephant Slaves and Pampered Parrots, Louise Robbins explains that exotic animals from around the world were common in eighteenth-century Paris. In the streets of the city, residents and visitors could observe performing elephants and a fighting polar bear. Those looking for unusual pets could purchase parrots, flying squirrels, and capuchin monkeys. The royal menagerie at Versailles displayed lions, cranes, an elephant, a rhinoceros, and a zebra, which in 1760 became a major court attraction.

For Enlightenment-era Parisians, exotic animals both piqued scientific curiosity and conveyed social status. Their availability was a boon for naturalists like Buffon, author of the best-selling Histoire naturelle, who observed unusual species in a variety of locations around the city. Louis XVI saw his menagerie as a manifestation of his power and funded its upkeep accordingly, while critics used the caged animals as metaphors of slavery and political oppression amidst the growing political turmoil. In her engaging and often surprising account, Robbins considers nearly every aspect of France's obsession with exotic fauna, from the vast literature on exotic animals and the inner workings of the oiseleurs' (birdsellers') guild to how the animals were transported, housed, and cared for. Based on wide-ranging and imaginative research, Elephant Slaves and Pampered Parrots stands as a major contribution to the history of human-animal relations, eighteenth-century culture, and French colonialism.

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Elephants are just gentle giants
Essential buy for elephant lovers

Elephants: Cultural And Natural History
Karl Groening
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Elephants are just gentle giants.......2002-07-03

This is just one beatifuly illistrated and well written book. It is definitely the elephant lovers 'guide to everything you ever wanted to know about elephants.' I've turned my 22 month old grand daughter into a elephant lover. Such screams of delight when she saw this wonderful new book grandma brought home! Such pictures and so much information! We love it.
Michele and Krislyn Rhoads
Anaheim, California

Essential buy for elephant lovers.......2000-01-11

This is a magnificent book. I first saw it at my local library. I fell in love with it and ordered a copy for my home library. It is a magnificently produced compendium about elephant knowledge and lore that is probably unique for being contained in one volume. And--you can't beat the price for such a beautiful book. Highly recommended.

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Elephants: A Cultural and Natural History
Karl Groning
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000K1QQ7U

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You don't know me, but I know about you.... I can't make you live longer, I can stop you form hurting. But I can give you one wish, as someone did for me.
Three letters. Three last wishes.
In Mother, Help Me Live, Sarah discovers that her birth mother, whom she's never known, is the one person who may have the bone marrow she needs to survive. When Sarah journeys to find her mother, she learns the real meaning of family.
Let Him Live tells the story of Megan's friendship with Donovan, who is hoping to receive a liver transplant. Megan helps make Donovan's wish for his mother and little brother come true, along the way, Megan comes to understand true giving.
In Sixteen and Dying, when Anne finds out that a blood transfusion she had seven years ago has made her future uncertain, being given one wish helps her face her pain. She chooses to spend the summer with her father on a ranch out west—and there she meets someone who will change her life.

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A MUST READ Lurlene McDaniel book!.......2005-08-22

A long time ago i read this book and it was the first LM book I ever read. I loved it!!! Lurlene McDaniel is my fave author and I'm pretty sure I've read all her books. What can I say?:Im a HUGE fan! her novels relate to real-life stories, so they are very sad but they make you wish you could help people who are suffering from diseases or a crisis like the characters in LM's books.
I knew that LM's books would take over me. cuz once i read this book,all 3 of the novels, my eyes got damp and thats when i knew. a book had never made me cry like that before. not ever

Best Book I ever Read.......2002-08-22

This is one of the best books that I have ever read, i was so into it, I finsihed the first story in less than 3 hours. It also helps with problems , the first story talks about cancer, and one of my loved ones is dealing with cancer, and it made me feel better afer I read it, these are very inspirational stories, and will show you that there is more to life than the little things.

Great Stories!.......2002-07-16

These stories truly went straight to my heart...every single one of them! Mainly because I could relate to all of them. In the first story, Sarah had leukemia and I once had a very good friend that went through all the same ordeals as Sarah. The second story I think I can relate to also because a couple of months back, I too was a candy striper at my local hospital because I had to get service hours for my church in order to be Confirmed, and just like Megan, I too went to the hospital everyday at first just wanting to get my hours done and go home, but after awhile, some of the patients that you visit with and get to know everyday have a very huge impact on you and your life sort of starts to revolve around them because you're constantly worrying about their health but, there's nothing you can do except listen to them talk everyday and try to cheer them up the best that you can. Then finally in the third story about Anne, I can also relate because just recently my distant cousin, whom I was very close with, passed away on account of HIV and the AIDS virus and I know the struggle she went through everyday because I was with her most days. Her and my friend, with leukemia, were also part of the reason I stuck with my candy striping job at the hospital because, like Megan put it, it gives you a great feeling of joy knowing that somehow you made a difference in someone's life and even though I'm only a sophmore in high school, I am already starting to make plans to someday attend Medical School and become a doctor so that I can keep making a difference in people's lives. So, thank you Lurlene for writing these beautiful and truly heart-warming stories that I would recommend to anyone and everyone!

Great Emotional Impact, even for an older person........2002-03-13

I just finished reading all three stories in this book, and I must say, Lurlene McDaniel still has the ability to create amazing and emotional stories for her readers. I have been a Lurlene McDaniel fan for many years, and it all began when I read "Six Months To Live". Her stories really bring to life the struggles that so many young people go through. All three of these stories had a major impact on me, but I think the greatest impact was brought on by "Sixteen and Dying". It's hard to explain why, exactly, but it did. At any rate, I think that any fan of Ms. McDaniel's, be they old, new, or never read any of her books before, should read these three stories.

One Last Wish.......2002-03-06

How will you feel if someone tells you that you only have six more months to live? What will you do if you discover that you are diagnosed with Leukemia? And how will you help a boy who has tons of wishes to fulfill in his life, but is dying because he needs an urgent liver transplant? In this novel, the author Lurlene McDaniel writes three touching and heart-warming stories all about teenagers diagnosed with life-threatening diseases. The first story, Mother Help Me live, describes an adopted child, Sara, suffering from Leukemia. In order for her to survive, she must find her birth mother. Readers read a long stream of struggling from Sara¡¦s disbelief in her adoption, up to the end when a shocking fact about her birth mother is revealed. The importance of love and family is showed¡Xfamily members will always love each other no matter if they are blood related or not. I am really touched by the story because I can almost feel how Sara is hurting mentally and physically, and how hopeless but optimistic her family is. In the other story, Sixteen and Dying, Ann discovers that she is infected with HIV. She has the opportunity to go to a ranch and spend her last wonderful times there, and she meets someone who changes her life. We can see step by step how angry and confused she feels when she knows she has HIV, and when she finally understands to accept what she can¡¦t change, face the reality, and live as happy as she can. These stories are all based on a person known as JWC generously donating checks to these ill teenagers, letting them use the money to accomplish what they want before they die. These novels have made me cry, and every time I start reading, I need a box of tissue beside me. Before, I always whined about how my life was horrible with all the homework and pressure from schoolwork. But after reading Lurlene McDaniels¡¦ stories and seeing how teenagers my age are suffering from much more than I am, I finally started to appreciate what I had, stopped complaining, and always thought on the bright side.

One Last Wish: Three Novels-Mother, Help Me Live, Let Him Live, Sixteen and Dyin

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One Last Wish: Three Novels-Mother, Help Me Live, Let Him Live, Sixteen and Dyin
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The critically acclaimed laboratory standard for more than forty years, Methods in Enzymology is one of the most highly respected publications in the field of biochemistry. Since 1955, each volume has been eagerly awaited, frequently consulted, and praised by researchers and reviewers alike. More than 285 volumes have been published (all of them still in print) and much of the material is relevant even today--truly an essential publication for researchers in all fields of life sciences.

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CAGED COMPOUNDS 500/E
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Principles of Field Ionization and Field Desorption Mass Spectrometry (International series in analytical chemistry ; v. 61)
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Principles of Field Ionization and Field Desorption Mass Spectrometry (International Series in Analytical Chemistry, Volume 61)
Hans Dieter Beckey
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While optimality conditions for optimal control problems with state constraints have been extensively investigated in the literature the results pertaining to numerical methods are relatively scarce. This book fills the gap by providing a family of new methods. Among others, a novel convergence analysis of optimal control algorithms is introduced. The analysis refers to the topology of relaxed controls only to a limited degree and makes little use of Lagrange multipliers corresponding to state constraints. This approach enables the author to provide global convergence analysis of first order and superlinearly convergent second order methods. Further, the implementation aspects of the methods developed in the book are presented and discussed. The results concerning ordinary differential equations are then extended to control problems described by differential-algebraic equations in a comprehensive way for the first time in the literature.

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Twenty essays about Bei Dao's life in exile since Tiananmen Square.

"Knowledge of death is the only key that can open midnight's gate."—Bei Dao

Bei Dao has gained international acclaim over the last decade for his haunting interior poetic landscapes; his poetry is translated and published in some twenty-five languages around the world. Now, in Midnight's Gate, Bei Dao redefines the essay form with the same elliptical precision of his poetry, but with an openness and humor that complements the complexity of his poems.

The twenty essays of Midnight's Gate form a travelogue of a poet who has lived in some seven countries since his exile from China in 1989. The work carries us from Palestine to Sacramento. At one point we are led into a basement in Paris for a production of Gorky's Lower Depths, the next moment we are in the mountains of China where Bei Dao worked for eleven years as a concrete mixer and ironworker. The subjective experience deepens and multiplies in these essays, filled with the stories of ordinary Chinese immigrants, as well as those of literary, artistic, and political figures. And it all coheres with a poet's observations, meditations, and memories.

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China's Greatest Living Poet.......2005-07-14

Much of the sour grapes that there is to be heard about Gao Xingjian's Nobel Prize for Literature in 2000 is because many felt Bei Dao deserved it. To compare Bei Dao to Gao Xingjian, though, would be like comparing apples to oranges.

Bei Dao is a poet and essayist, whereas Gao Xingjian is a playwright who has dabbled in novels. The result is two very different styles dealing with the same issues of identity and alienation in this post-modern world. In Gao's works, as one would expect from a playwright, dialouge and narative dominate. Bei Dao, on the other hand, is a poet, and a very good one. His writing is more eposodic, best captured in short stories, long poems, or as in Midnight's Gate, essays.

The litterary essay is a high art in China, and Chinese essaysits are descended from a very different tradition than the conversational lineage of Montagne that we are familiar with in the west. Chinese essays tend to be more rhuminating, image-heavy, and obtuse. They are not so much telling the reader what they think as they are leading the reader down the path they have already traveled. At first they might not seem to say anything important, but closer examination reveals a diferent methodology. It is the images that hold the power in Chinese essays, the depictions of moments that come through with the clearest, and deepest meanings.

In Midnight's Gate, Bei Dao writes in a style unusualy forcefull for Chinese writers. His images now are dizying and frantic. He weaves around the reader the chaos of contemporary life, while dropping just enough casualy metaphysical observations to lead you to realize the desperation of the modern world spinning ever faster.

I would hope that the Nobel Prize awarded to Gao Xingjian was more than just a token homage to the Orient. Bei Dao is one of the great writers working during our lifetimes, and should definitely be considered for the Nobel prize in years to come.

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Ubermonkey says thumbs ...........2006-08-30

THE GOOD: The book is interesting but largely because of the target and not so much due to the execution of relaying the story about said target. This was my first step into the life of William Wallace and will admit that I enjoyed it, somewhat.

THE BAD: I felt like the book could have been laid out a little better. Through much of first part, it seemed like there was a lot of back filling about things other than Wallace. I understand the author needs to create the world in which Wallace was born, but to do so at the expense of leaving the subject of your book out I think is a mistake. I wanted more Wallace in these early chapters and while he wasn't totally absent, I think he could have been more present.

THE UGLY: Not being an expert on WW, I wonder at the inaccuracies within this book regarding his life. I know the main source comes from Harry's story but there are parts in the book where the author even casts doubts on the validity of Harry's writing. There were also parts where it was explained, with surprising detail, how WW had combatted numerous English foes by himself in an almost superhuman like way. Maybe it's true, maybe it's not...I don't know. But I did find myself wondering what was accurate adn what was not.

Ubermonkey says that there are probably better books one can buy regarding the outstanding life of William Wallace.

best possible work with little availiable sources.......2005-05-08

I have read many reviews, and as a medieval history student people need to realize when writing about the middle ages many sources are not original. This is a great book, that argues from many points of where Wallace may have lived. They are guesses, but based on the best availiable sources. Also writersd need to take into consideration where the accounts came from, and how they were altered in such a way. Of course accounts from an english lord wont be in favor of wallace. What i did liek about the book, is how it is left out about the battle at york, which in the movie got peope excited. #1 sieges almost never worked for opposing armies, also if an opposing army did break through walls were lines with archers and it was rare that anyone would take the castle. #2 It was a small rebel army, nit a trained military, and at this point the whole english army would have been sent north for protection, so i highly doubt wallace would have sacked york, the movie is incorrect as usual. As for the book, the author does the best he can with what is given to him.

brave travesty.......2003-09-12

As a Wallace aficionado, i looked forward to reading this, but to say i was disappointed was an understatement.
This badly researched book was full of inaccuracies.
The author puts forward an alternative Wallace birthplace, putting forward detail that the unsuspecting reader would probably take on board. For instance, he says "Corsbie is of course, now known as Crosshouse", whereas these two places are seperate entities.
He places one monument, that of Leglen Wood, 20 miles away from its correct location, and claims Wallace was born in Ayrshire, whereas the Wallace family were vassals of the Stewart family, who never owned land in this area, and so Wallace could not have been born there.
Dates are wrong, one monument he claims was built in 1970, was actually built in 1910.
I feel the author, no stranger to controversy, has jumped on the Wallace bandwagon, and has rushed this work out to take advantage of the boom caused by Braveheart. Many people see details in print, and assume they are true. This book has so many inaccuracies that it will actually lead its readers astray.

I found it boring.......2003-08-15

I'm a big fan of the movie Braveheart, and of history, but I could never get into this book. It's written somewhere in between a novel and a work of history. Because it strattles this line it brings out the best of neither world.

The author clearly attempted to write a biography on Wallace based on Blind Harry's poems, but he filled in many details to poems that are probably embellished history. I just found the book rather dull.

richly details history of Wallace and his rising.......2002-11-25

As a child of 9 I picked out the decor for my new room - Wallace Plaid - which dumbfounded my family since our Clans were MacGillivray, Ogilvie, Grant, Fraser and Montgomerie! But I thought Wallace such a great, sweeping figure. This was decades before Randall Wallace accidentally discovered William Wallace on a vacation in Scotland and read Anne Porter's Highland Chiefs. Wallace, to me, was such a true Patriot - not a Saint, but a man willing to go to the wall, to die for what he believed. Not many of us would walk in his shoes, so I have to admire his willingness to die for an idea.
James MacKay gives a richly details account of the Scottish clime of politics that formed and fermented Wallace. It might be a little bit more than the average reader would be interested in (I would suggest Grey's book on Wallace in that case), but for those wishing to know more without wading through Blind Harry, this is a wonderful work.

A perfect gift to that friend that watched Braveheart more than once!!

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William Wallace, Brave Heart
James Mackay
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Storm on the Horizon is the little-known story of the key land battle of Desert Storm: the Battle for Khafji -- and how that engagement has become part of military history. Combining some of the most powerful writing on war ever with a Marine's eyeview of combat, former Marine officer David J. Morris has brilliantly recreated this crucial battle that nearly changed the outcome of the Persian Gulf War. Storm on the Horizon is war writing at its finest.

On January 29, 1991, Saddam Hussein launched his three best armored divisions across the Kuwaiti border and into the Islamic Holy Land of Saudi Arabia. Their mission: to disrupt the massive U.S.-led Coalition preparing to evict them from Kuwait, and to bloody the Americans on CNN. Caught without warning in the path of this juggernaut were scattered groups of lightly armed U.S. Marines and Special Forces soldiers. Storm on the Horizon is the gripping and compelling story of how these elite fighting men escaped the Iraqi onslaught and reversed the assault with an unprecedented combination of high-tech weaponry and American know-how. This is the story of the first battle of the smart-bomb age.

Storm on the Horizon drops you in the middle of the most intense battle of the Persian Gulf War. The Marines are trapped and outnumbered, their weapons no match against the Iraqi tanks bearing down on them. Their only lifeline to the rear is a barely functioning radio. Drawing upon extensive veteran interviews and previously classified reports, David J. Morris's vivid minute-by-minute narrative takes you through the battle from its beginning as a scattered collection of skirmishes to its fiery final act in the streets of the abandoned Saudi Arabian town of Khafji. Morris captures this ordeal through the eyes of the men who were there, giving readers a rare front-row seat to an incredible sequence of events. Max Morton, the pilot of a Cobra attack helicopter is forced to make an emergency landing in the heart of Khafji as the Iraqis are attacking. He and his crew narrowly escape after locating a tank of mystery fuel at a local oil refinery. Medic Kevin Callahan, member of a team of Marines caught behind enemy lines, watches helplessly as a female U.S. Army soldier and her male comrade are captured by Iraqi soldiers and spirited to Baghdad. Ronald Tull, suffering untold wounds, wakes up next to his burning light-armored vehicle thinking that it has been struck by an enemy tank round. Only later does he learn the full horror of the events that led up to the death of his seven buddies who were on board.

But Storm on the Horizon is far more than a battle saga. It is a thoughtful examination of a new generation of fighting men coming to terms with its own war, a journey into the minds of men under supreme stress, and a heartfelt account of the innocence lost in a heartbeat and mourned for a lifetime.

At once an unflinching chronicle of men at war and an appalling tableau, Storm on the Horizon looks into the savage heart of modern combat and raises troubling questions about the era of conflict that lies ahead.

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"Storm on the Horizon is the little-known story of the key land battle of Desert Storm: the Battle for Khafji -- and how that engagement has become part of military history. Combining some of the most powerful writing on war ever with a Marine's eyeview of combat, former Marine officer David J. Morris has brilliantly recreated this crucial battle that nearly changed the outcome of the Persian Gulf War. Storm on the Horizon is war writing at its finest. On January 29, 1991, Saddam Hussein launched his three best armored divisions across the Kuwaiti border and into the Islamic Holy Land of Saudi Arabia. Their mission: to disrupt the massive U.S.-led Coalition preparing to evict them from Kuwait, and to bloody the Americans on CNN. Caught without warning in the path of this juggernaut were scattered groups of lightly armed U.S. Marines and Special Forces soldiers. Storm on the Horizon is the gripping and compelling story of how these elite fighting men escaped the Iraqi onslaught and reversed the assault with an unprecedented combination of high-tech weaponry and American know-how. This is the story of the first battle of the smart-bomb age. Storm on the Horizon drops you in the middle of the most intense battle of the Persian Gulf War.

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Those awesome Marines...........2006-08-31

This is a breakout book for a Marine officer with an amazing ability to write - This is a story about a battle virtually no one ever heard about, yet author Dave Morris does an excellent job capturing the terror of fighting an overwhelming armored force. And as seems to happen all too often, there were more Marine casualties from our Air Force A-10 pilots ( who have an ability to kill Marines with a heartbreaking regularity - see "Charlie Battery; A Marine Artillery Battery in Iraq" about
yet another Air Force FUBAR at An-Nasiriyah ).

Interesting to note the army's ability to have their convoys get lost in Iraq, and their women soldiers captured ( see Jessica Lynch ! )

The author has written one of the better books about the Marines in Desert Storm - he puts you up in the front lines, and makes you care about the Marines as they fight. Well done !!

Puts it all in perspective........2006-05-22

I bought this book almost a year ago, but wasn't sure if I was ready to read it. I was at Al Kibrit with 8th Eng. during the battle and watched the fireworks coming from OP 4. The book has put all of what was my experience into perspective. During the entire incident I was only aware of my 50 yards of berm. I now know that the nervousness about possibly being overrun was not just nerves. It could have been a reality. I thank God that my fellow Marines kept the bad guys north of us. This book takes what has become known as "the battle" of the Persian Gulf War and explains why the entire coalition battle plan changed. Instead of two division leapfrogging into Kuwait, we had two divisions attacking almost on line. I had never understood that Khafji was a major reason why we built Khanjar and moved to the Kuwait elbow.

The Perfect "Storm".......2005-06-17

"Storm On The Horizon" is the best book I have read of the First Gulf War. The attention to detail is superb, the maps are detailed, and the fact that David Morris can "talk the talk" helps put the material into proper perspective. I personally knew and served with several of the officers and NCOs depicted in the book, as I had just departed 3d Marine Regiment prior to the War's beginning, and it was personally and professionally fulfilling to finally see their story gain the attention it truly deserves. The reading brought back many fine memories of these Marine warriors. Khafji was the watershed event of the First Gulf War, as the first major ground combat action against the much "vaunted" Iraqis, and we can finally see how the action played out thanks to Morris. Hopefully we'll soon see a similar account about the current Iraqi conflict that matches Morris' prose, detail, and research. So far, I'm still waiting, so maybe I'll just read "Storm" one more time . . .

OP 4 Veteran.......2005-01-14

As a veteran of the fight for OP 4 on Jan 29 1991, I can honestly say that this book got it right. I literally trembled as I read it. It put me right back to that cold night. I highly recommend this book.

Passionate, Compassionate Military History.......2004-11-09

In this time of war, I found this book to be important because #1, it seemed like the first down-in-the-weeds view of the Gulf War and #2, it immediately struck a curious, human tone in dealing with inhuman events. While I understand that some feel this book to be biased towards Marines, I thought that it presented a balanced view of the modern American fighting man--his colossal screw ups, his foibles, his prejudices, in short, his humanity--themes that seems all the more important considering the ongoing Iraq War. THe book is full of strange stuff--Marines trying to kill their own officers, horrific friendly fire, American Marines converting to Islam, Jewish-Americans serving under Saudi officers, etc. This book seemed to be a larger, broader version of JARHEAD--an alternate view of the Marines Corps and the Gulf War.

Storm on the Horizon: Khafji--The Battle That Changed the Course of the Gulf War

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Storm on the Horizon: Khafji--The Battle That Changed the Course of the Gulf War
David J. Morris
Manufacturer: Presidio Press
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ASIN: B000OVJ4W0

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excellent read, fascinating topic..........2000-03-10

I would highly recommnend this book to anyone interested in the environment, but more importantly, anyone interested in the idea of "saving" the environment. Ashworth very nobly explores man's vision of what "nature" should be and what conservation should mean. Through his own experiences and wisdom, he deftly tells it like it is and though this may seem a turnoff to many, he doesn't aggravate or annoy the reader. I read this book in several hours, and wished there had been more. Ashworth is a keen observer of nature and anyone who feels that nature is worth saving should read this book.

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