These stories maintain, perhaps even supercede, the high standard of the earlier classic collection. Corbett saves his best story of all for the long concluding chapter in this volume, describing, in The Talla Des Man-Eater, how he embarked on what he feared might be a fatal last test of skill and endurance. As always, he writes with an acute awareness of all jungle sights and sounds, choosing words charged with a great love of humanity, birds, and animals. His calm and straightforward modesty heightens the excitement and suspense of these experiences, in which he continuously risks his life to free the Indian tarai of dangerous man-eaters.

    Meet a frog with a coat of hair (which turns out not to be hair at all), full grown monkeys that fit inside a teacup, mice with wings, and many more of the species endemic to the Cameroons, not to mention the local ruler, the Fon of Bafut.

    three singles to adventure takes the reader to south America, where he meets the sakiwinki and the sloth clad in bright green fur, where he can hear the horrifying sound of piranha fish on the rampage, or learn how to lasso a galloping anteater.

    All that is required is an attitude of openness, friendliness, humility, and a sense of humor to part the curtain and form bonds of real friendship.For anyone who loves animals, for all those who have ever experienced the special devotion only a pet can bring, Kinship With All Life is an unqualified delight. Sample these pages and you will never encounter "just a dog" again, but rather a fellow member of nature's own family.

    In the early 1950's he took a journey to seek the legend out, in the Hebrides, on the east coast of Scotland, on the west coast of Ireland - places where magic co-exists with reality and pre-Christian traditions and beliefs somehow endure. He gives us here the fruits of his search as he found it, and tells us something of the men, women, and children from whom he heard the stories. He also tells of his own encounters with seals, and the dreamlike hold that these have had on him. The result is, in the words of his friend Seamus Heaney, a poetic achievement - a work of "intuitive understanding, perfect grace, and perfect pitch."

    He saw other colts on the farm running and playing and was very sad. No one paid any attention to him except his mama and a little girl...

    Of course, he was very happy to have such a good safe home, even if it meant having baths and strange things to eat, but he found it hard to be as good as the little Badgers, and then too there was the danger of the Wicked Uncle who wanted to kidnap him.

    

    

    And because of his growing wisdom and cunning in escaping traps and dogs, he also became known as a "haunt" fox—an elusive prize eagerly sought by every hunter in the valley. Evading pursuit was a game Star enjoyed as much as did the hounds that trailed him.Young Jack Crowley and his foxhound, Thunder, were the youngest hunters on the "haunt" fox's trail. The climax makes a surprising ending to one of the best wild animal stories Jim Kjelgaard has ever written.

    Marcia Brown also lived in Jamaica, so her gay black & white line drawings capture the spirit of these tales.

    

    To me a dog lover is a dog who is in love with another dog."This book is about dog lovers in the Thurber sense. It is about a carefully nurtured, beautifully pedigreed little cocker spaniel named Lady, and a raffish, freedom-loving wanderer of a dog who wares no man's collar named Tramp.There are several other minor characters, such as human beings, but they are really important only to advance the plot.You will find out yourself that it is a wonderful story, but if you need any proof, Lady and the Tramp is going to be Walt Disney's major full-length feature picture next year.

    A Bobby Brewster story.The story of how a sick cow is healed by the cow specialist from Vienna.