A Project of Animal People, Inc., 1992-2013
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2001:
“It is said that if an elephant dies, the elephant’s person will
forever live in sorrow.”
Modoc: The True Story of the
Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived
by Ralph Hefner
HarperCollins (1350 Avenue Of The Americas,
New York, NY 10019), 1998.
325 pages, paperback. $13.00
To The Elephant Graveyard
by Tarquin Hall
Grove Press (841 Broadway, New York, NY 10003, 2001. 260 pages,
paperback. $13.00
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2001:
Mad Dogs & An Englishwoman by Crystal Rogers
Penguin (c/o www.pengunbooksindia.com), 2000. 192 pages,
paperback. 250 rupees + postage/handling.
At least twice, at ages 17 and 89, the late Crystal Rogers
started to write her autobiography. Her second attempt incorporated
the surviving part of the first, but Rogers usually kept too busy to
write much. She died in 1996 at age 90 without having completed much
more of Mad Dogs & An Englishwoman than the first chapter; a memoir
of her brief World War II relationship with a Canadian airman named
Jim, who was killed in action; and a few vignettes of the early
years of the three humane societies that she helped to found in
India, loosely directed by seances with Jim.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2001:
Ophelia’s Winter, by Sarah Ann Hill
1st Books Library (2511 West 3rd Street, Suite #1, Bloomington, IN 47404), 2000.
Sarah Ann Hill, the last page of Ophelia’s Winter explains,
was actually the name of author Marilyn Sansom’s great grandmother,
“a storyteller back in the 1800s,” who was wife of the first forest
ranger in West Virginia.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2001:
The Parrot Who Owns Me:
The Story of a Relationship
by Joanna Burger.
Villard Books (299 Park Ave., New York, NY 10171), 2001.
256 pages, hardcover. $23.95.
Animal People readers are sometimes accused of being
anthropomorphic–especially by people who pretend to take a
“scientific” view of animal life and intelligence.
Joanna Burger, however, is a world-class behavioral
ecologist, who serves on the National Academy of Sciences advisory
panel on endocrine-disrupting chemicals, yet in The Parrot Who Owns
Me unabash-edly blurs the distinction between human and birds.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2001:
Gold Rush Dogs
by Claire R. Murphy & Jane G. Haigh
119 pages, paperback, illustrated. $16.95.
Alone Across the Arctic
by Pam Flowers with Ann Dixon
120 pages, paperback, illustrated. $15.95.
Both from Alaska Northwest Books (203 W. 15th #108, Anchorage, AK
99501), 2001.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2001:
The Buffalo War
by Matthew Testa & Bryan Cole
Independent TV Service
(51 Federal St., 1st Floor,
San Francisco, CA 94107), 2001.
PBS premiere on Nov. 1, 2001, 10 p.m.
60 minutes.
El Caballo:
The Wild Horses
of North America
by Doug Hawes-Davis
A Fund for Animals video produced by
High Plains Films (P.O. Box 6796, Missoula, MT 59807), 2001.
54 minutes. $25.00.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2001:
Canned Hunts: Unfair At Any Price
by Diana Norris, Norm Phelps, & D.J. Schubert
(with other Fund for Animals staff)
Fund for Animals (200 West 57th St., New York, NY 10019), 2001.
64 pages, paperback. $5.00. [May also be downloaded, for free,
at <www.fund.org>.]
“Canned hunts,” in which animals are raised and shot witbin
fenced bounds, present an ethical paradox.
Amounting almost literally to shooting fish in a barrel,
they belie the pretense of the participants to being “sportsmen.” At
larger facilities, the animals may be able to run and
hide–briefly–but they can’t run far, and the “guide” knows the
hiding places. Even the biggest canned hunt is much like an Easter
egg hunt, except that the object is dead animals instead of dyed
eggs.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2001:
A Different Nature: The Paradoxical World of Zoos and Their Uncertain Future
by David Hancocks
University of California Press (2000 Center St.,Suite 303, Berkeley, CA 94704), 2001.
392 pages, hardcover. $35.00.
Zoo Tycoon
Microsoft Corporation
(1 Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052), 2001.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2001:
The Witness
Tribe of Heart video (P.O. Box 149, Ithaca, NY 14851), 2000.
43 minutes. $20.00 + $4.00 postage & handling.
In the year-plus since The Witness debuted at the Animal
Rights 2000 conference in Washington D.C., it has become the screen
production most raved about by activists since The Animals’ Film,
narrated by Julie Christie in 1981. Mainstream critics praise it;
activist publications gush.
Unlike The Animals’ Film, which played at off-peak hours in
some major theatres, The Witness is not as demonstrably reaching the
general public–and probably no documentary could in today’s much
more competive screen marketplace.