Category: Reviews

BOOKS: In Bear Country

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2011:

In Bear Country by Jake McDonald
(Originally published as Grizzlyville: Adventures In Bear Country,
HarperCollins Canada, 2009.)
Lyons Press (246 Goose Lane, Guilford, CT 06437), 2010.
272 pages, paperback. $19.99.

Winnipeg journalist Jake McDonald shines in his eighth book,
In Bear Country.
His story begins on the night of August 13, 1967. Grizzly
bears, in two separate and apparently unrelated attacks, miles
apart, killed Glacier National Park employees Julie Helgeson and
Michele Koons as they camped with friends.

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BOOKS: Snowball’s Antarctic Adventures

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2011:

Snowball’s Antarctic Adventures
by Tim Ostermeyer
Ostermeyer Photography (1813 Country Brook Lane,
Allen, TX 75002), 2011. 48 pages, hardcover. $18.95.

Snowball’s Antarctic Adventures, a new children’s book from
photographer Tim Ostermeyer, is about penguins. Odd-shaped birds,
penguins do not lift off and fly like the swallows and swifts who are
among their closest relatives. Instead they alternate between
swimming astonishing distances at astonishing speeds and waddling
around the ice flapping their stubby wings. Sometimes they lie on
their bellies and slide on the ice.

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BOOKS: Unsaid

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2011:
Unsaid by Neil Abramson, Center Street
(Hachette Book Group, 3 Center Plaza, Boston, MA 02108), 2011.
368 pages, hardcover. $23.99.
Neil Abramson, publicity materials for Unsaid inform us,
“is a partner in a Manhattan law firm, and his wife is a
veterinarian. Abramson is also a past board member of the Animal
Legal Defense Fund, an award recipient from the ASPCA for his legal
work on behalf of animals, and a founding member of the New York
City Bar Association Committee on Legal Issues Relating to Animals.”

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BOOKS: Such a Nuisance to Die

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2011:

Such a Nuisance to Die:
the Autobiography of Her Serene Highness Princess Elisabeth de Croy
as told to Joy Leney
The Book Guild Ltd.
(Pavilion View, 19 New Road, Brighton BN11UF, United Kingdom.
Distributed in the U.S. by Transatlantic Publications.) 2010.
256 pages, hardcover, illustrated. $38.50.

The many animal advocates who were fortunate enough to have
encountered Her Serene Highness Princess Elisabeth de Croy at
international events and conferences in the decades between 1970-when
she officially opened her Refuge de Thiernay sanctuary for
animals-and her death in 2009, would use many positive adjectives to
describe Elisabeth, but “serene” would probably not be one of them.
When I met Princess Elisabeth at the first Asia for Animals
conference in Manila, Philippines, in 2001, she was almost eighty
and still livelier than the average forty-year-old. She wanted to go
to a slaughterhouse after the meeting ended and was looking for
someone who would go with her. As I was already trying to steel
myself for an investigation of the Korean dog and cat meat trade on
the way back to the U.S., I demurred.

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BOOKS: The Bond

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2011:
The Bond: Our Kinship with Animals, Our Call to Defend Them
by Wayne Pacelle
William Morrow/Harper Collins
(10 East 53rd St., New York, NY 10022), 2011.
432 pages, hardcover. $26.95.
Wayne Pacelle, in The Bond: Our Kindship with Animals, Our
Call to Defend Them, becomes the third president of the Humane
Society of the U.S. to produce a book during his tenure, but the
first whose book is a work of sole authorship.

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BOOKS: The Ape House

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2011:
The Ape House by Sara Gruen
Spiegel & Grau
(c/o Random House, 1745 Broadway, New York, NY 10019), 2010.
336 pages, hardcover. $26.00.
Water for the Elephants author Sara Gruen and her new
publisher, the Spiegel & Grau imprint at Random House, may have
rushed The Ape House into print to have it in stores coinciding with
the April 22, 2011 release of the film version of Water for the
Elephants, starring Reese Witherspoon.

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BOOKS: Finding Jack

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2011:
Finding Jack by Gareth Crocker
St. Martin’s Press
(c/o MacMillan, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010), 2001.
289 pages, hardcover. $23.99
Finding Jack, by South African first-time novelist Gareth
Crocker, is at least the fifth book in 10 years to explore the fate
of the approximately 4,000 scout and sentry dogs used by U.S.,
Australian, and South Vietnamese forces during the Vietnam War–a
story seldom told during the first 25 years after the U.S. left
Vietnam in March 1975, after a five-year phased withdrawal of troops.

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BOOKS: Putting the Horse before Descartes: My Life’s Work on Behalf of Animals

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2011:

Putting the Horse before Descartes:
My Life’s Work on Behalf of Animals
by Bernard E. Rollin
Temple University Press (1852 N. 10th St.,
Philadelphia, PA 19122), 2011. 283 pages,
hardcover. $35.00.

Bernard Rollin offers, in the 16
chapters of Putting the Horse before Descartes:
My Life’s Work on Behalf of Animals, two
chapters of autobiography plus random vignettes;
a concluding chapter of tributes to colleagues
and scattered thoughts; and thirteen chapters
adapted from his favorite lectures and essays.

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BOOKS: Kids & Animals: Drawings From the Hands and Hearts of Children & Youth

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2011:

Kids & Animals:
Drawings From the Hands and Hearts of Children & Youth
by Marc Bekoff, Ph.D.
70 pages, free to download from:
<http://www.ucdenver.edu/academics/colleges/ArchitecturePlanning/discover/ce
nters/CYE/Publications/Pages/Books.aspx>

Animal behavior researcher Marc Bekoff
was inspired to assemble Kids & Animals by Ellen
Mackey, a third grade teacher at Foothill
Elementary School in Boulder, Colorado. Mackey
had organized a Roots & Shoots group among her
class. Roots & Shoots is an international

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