Wild Animals I Have Known (The Penguin Nature Library) - Softcover

Seton, Ernest Thompson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140170057 ISBN 13: 9780140170054

Publisher: Viking Pr, 1987

Synopsis

The author recalls the experiences of a wolf, a mustang, and several other wild animals, either devoted to or destroyed by man

About this title

Synopsis:

'WILD ANIMALS I HAVE KNOWN' WAS FIRST PUBLISHED BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS IN 1898 AND BECAME AN IMMEDIATE SENSATION; IN A LITTLE OVER A YEAR THE BOOK WENT THROUGH NINE PRINTINGS, BRINGING ALMOST OVERNIGHT SUCCESS AND CELEBRITY TO ITS AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR ERNEST THOMPSON SETON. SETON (1860-1946) WAS BORN IN ENGLAND, RAISED IN THE BACKWOODS OF CANADA, EDUCATED AT HTE ROYAL ACADEMY IN LONDON, AND LIVED MOST OF HIS LIFE IN WESTERN U.S. ORIGINALLY TRAINED AS A PAINTER, HE WROTE HIS FIRST STORY "LOBO, THE KING OF CURRAMPAW" IN THE EARLY 1890S, BASED ON HIS EXPERIENCES TRAPPING AND OBSERVING WOLVES IN NEW MEXICO. HIS ANIMAL STORIES - EIGHT OF WHICH ARE GATHERED IN THIS VOLUME - ARE AMONG THE BEST AND MOST FAMOUS EVERY WRITTEN, RIVALLING EVEN KIPLING'S "JUNGLE BOOKS", THE IDEA FOR WHICH (SO KIPLING WROTE SETON) HE GOT FROM READING "WILD ANIMALS I HAVE KNOWN".

About the Author:

Ernest Thompson Seton's first collection of animal stories, Wild Animals I Have Known (1898), won immediate critical and popular acclaim, and was followed in the next four decades by more than thirty volumes of such fiction. Seton founded a youth organization, the League of Woodcraft Indians, and in 1910 joined Lord Baden-Powell in establishing the Boy Scouts of America. In the same year, he wrote the Boy Scouts of America Official Manual. In 1930 Seton moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he set up Seton Village, a center for environmentalists, naturalists, and students of North American Indian culture. Ernest Thompson Seton died in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1946.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Pr
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0140170057
• ISBN 13: 9780140170054
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 358