In Beaver World - Softcover
Human workaholics who argue that it profits little to toil four days and take off Friday should look more closely at the beaver, which works less than half the time and enjoys long summer vacations. For Enos A. Mills, watching beavers was a lifelong preoccupation. From his arrival in Longs Peak Valley in 1884 until his death in 1922, the founder of Rocky Mountain National Park kept year-round vigil on the ponds nearby.With the kind of feeling generally reserved for more photogenic animals, Mills describes here the world of beavers, their unusual pacificism and vegetarianism, their engineering feats, their better-than-human conservation of natural resources. Mills estimates that there were as many as one hundred million beavers in North America at the beginning of the seventeenth century, just before the Hudson's Bay Company made capital of their pelts. He shows that no animal ever contributed more to civilization or was itself more civilized.
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With the kind of feeling generally reserved for more photogenic animals, Mills describes here the world of beavers, their unusual pacificism and vegetarianism, their engineering feats, their better-than-human conservation of natural resources. He shows that no animal ever contributed more to civilization or was itself more civilized.
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James H. Pickering, Dean of the College of Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of Houston, has supplied an authoritative introduction to Mills's life and notes to this book, originally published in 1913.
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- PublisherBison Books
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0803281722
- ISBN 13 9780803281721
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages304
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