BOOKS: Reprises of Born Free

October 1, 2008 Archivist Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2008:
(Actual publication date 11-5-08.)

The Daily Coyote by Shreve Stockton
Simon & Schuster, 1230 Ave. of the Americas, New York, NY 10020), 2008. 279 pages, paperback. $23.00.

The Parrot Who Thought She Was A Dog by Nancy Ellis-Bell
Harmony Books (c/o Random House, 1745 Broadway, New York, NY 10019), 2008. 245 pages, hardcover. $23.00.

Of Parrots & People by Mira Tweti
Penguin Group USA (375 Hudson St., New York, NY 10014), 2008. 300 pages, paperback. $25.95.

Behind The Daily Coyote, The Parrot Who Thought She Was A Dog, and an entire genre of similar books which since 1960 have reshaped public opinion about wildlife stands the ghost of George Adamson and the influence of Pat O Neill, a Kenyan who later inherited the Broadlands equine stud farm near Cape Town, South Africa, and converted it into the Kalu Animal Trust.

BOOKS: Puddles on the Floor

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2008:
(Actual publication date 11-5-08.)

Puddles on the Floor
by Lorena Estep
illustrated by
Tamara Ci Thayne
Crescent Renewal Resource (P.O. Box 23, Tipton, PA 16684), 2008.
22 pages, paperback. $15.95.
(Also sold as CD, $9.95.)

Puddles on the Floor is an exquisitely illustrated story for children about a beagle who is isolated outdoors on a chain after he is not properly house-trained. Artist Tamara Ci Thayne, known until mid-2008 as Tammy Grimes, founded the anti-chaining organization Dogs Deserve Better in 2001. Author Lorena Estep is her mother.
The book, a CD edition of the story, and several accessory items are sold with the dual purpose of educating children about dog care and raising funds and volunteer help for Dogs Deserve Better.

BOOKS: Social Creatures: A Human and Animal Studies Reader

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2008:

Social Creatures:
A Human and Animal Studies Reader
Edited by Clifton P. Flynn
Lantern Books (128 Second Place, Garden Suite, Brooklyn,
NY 11231), 2008. Paperback, 458 pages. $50.00.

A cynic might conclude from Social
Creatures: A Human and Animal Studies Reader,
assembled as a sociology text, that animal
advocacy has either died of old age or is
terminally moribund, that no one involved has
had an original insight or useful idea since
approximately 1998, and that the cause of death
was Latinate writing, also implicated in the
decline and fall of the Roman empire.
Editor Clifton P. Flynn and probably most
of the contributors may regard this anthology as
evidence that animal advocacy has arrived as a
respectable topic of academic study, since it
now has an ossified canon authored by
Ph.D.-holding professors, some of whom long
since became emeritus.

BOOKS: Pet Food Politics

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2008:

Pet Food Politics by Marion Nestle
University of California Press (2120 Berkeley Way, Berkeley,
CA 94704), 2008. 219 pages, hardcover. $18.95.

The China Health Ministry at this writing has just announced
that the number of infants and young children known to have been
poisoned by melamine mixed into powdered milk or baby formula has
increased tenfold in 48 hours, to more than 54,000.
Four children have died, 13,000 are hospitalized, and
40,000 children plus two orangutans and a lion cub at the Hangzhou
Safari Park near Shanghai have required outpatient medical treatment
for kidney stones caused by ingesting melamine, a coal derivative of
no nutritional value.

BOOKS: Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts & Minds

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2008:

Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts & Minds
About Animals & Food by Gene Baur
Touchstone Books (1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY
10020), 2008. Hardcover, 286 pages. $25.00.

“Gene Baur grew up in Hollywood, California, where he
worked as an extra in television, films, and commercials,
including several spots for McDonald’s and other fast food chains,”
opens his brief back-page biography in Farm Sanctuary: Changing
Hearts & Minds . Baur might have pursued a screen career. Instead,
as a teenager Baur heard from his grandmother about veal calf crating
and briefly became a vegatarian. Baur became a committed vegetarian
in 1985 after meeting his future wife Lorri during a summer stint
working for Greenpeace in Chicago.
They began their careers in animal advocacy together in
Washington D.C. about six months later. Working initially for other
organizations, they incorporated Farm Sanctuary in April 1986. By
1996 Farm Sanctuary operated sanctuaries in both upstate New York and
northern California, and had long since become the second largest
farm animal advocacy group in the world, trailing only Compassion In
World Farming, of Britain.

BOOKS: Harpoon: Into the heart of whaling

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2008:

Harpoon:
Into the heart of whaling
by Andrew Darby
DaCapo Press (11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142), 2008.
320 pages, hardcover. $25.00.

Long covering whaling and whale-related politics for the
Melbourne Age and the Sydney Morning Herald, Andrew Darby enjoys a
reputation as the best there ever was on the whale beat, at least
since Herman Melville wrote Moby Dick. He does well on other
animal-related news beats too. More than 50 Darby articles have
informed ANIMAL PEOPLE coverage of marine mammals, Australian
wildlife, and issues involving Australian zoos. Darby’s work is
conspicuous for providing depth of background and inside
perspectives–and although Darby openly favors whales over
whale-killing, some sources within the Japanese whaling industry
appear to be willing to talk to him when they will not talk to anyone
else.

BOOKS: Ivory Markets in the USA

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2008:

Ivory Markets in the USA
by Esmond Martin & Daniel Stiles
Save the Elephants (P.O. Box 54667, 00200 Nairobi, Kenya), 2008.
120 pages, paperback, produced in partnership with Care for the
Wild International. No price listed.

Ivory Markets in the USA follows Esmond Martin and Daniel
Stiles’ earlier comprehensive reports on the ivory traffic in Africa,
southern and eastern Asia, and Europe. Martin, a geographer, and
Stiles, an anthropologist, in each report thoroughly inventory and
document all the ivory items they find offered for sale in examples
of every type of retail outlet that might stock ivory. Dominoes,
piano keys, and guitar picks attract their notice, as well as the
ornate carvings that are most often associated with antique and
therefore legal uses of ivory.

BOOKS: Sacred Animals of India

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2008:

Sacred Animals of India
by Nanditha Krishna
C.P.R. Environmental Education Centre
(c/o C.P. Ramaswami Aiyar Foundation,
1 Eldams Road, Alwarpet,
Chennai 600 018, India), 2008.
Order c/o <www.ecoheritage.cpreec.org>.
244 pages, paperback, illustrated. $21.00 U.S.

“Sacred Animals of India was to have been
ready in time for the Asia for Animals conference
held in January 2007 at Chennai,” prefaces
author Nanditha Krishna. “However, when I began
researching the subject, I discovered a wealth
of material that was impossible to ignore. So I
decided not to rush, and to cover the subject in
greater depth.”

BOOKS: Dogs Gone Wild After Hurricane Katrina

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2008:

Dogs Gone Wild
After Hurricane Katrina
by Theresa D. Thompson
Tate Publishing (127 E. Trade Center Terrace, Mustang,
OK 73064), 2008. 127 pages, paperback. $14.99.

In the age of “instant” book publishing to commemorate major
events–and cash in while public interest is highest–Dogs Gone Wild
is oddly enough the first book about the Hurricane Katrina animal
rescue effort to reach ANIMAL PEOPLE, arriving nearly three years
after Katrina inundated much of New Orleans and devastated the Gulf
Coast from Alabama to Texas.
It is not the rescue memoir one might anticipate. Author
Theresa Thompson is a retired medical secretary, recently widowed,
who lives in Upper Marlboro, Mary-land. She was not directly
involved in the animal rescue. Neither was her sister, Charlotte
Brown, who sent Dogs Gone Wild to ANIMAL PEOPLE.

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