Adam's Task: Calling Animal's by Name
Language: English
Published by Vintage Books, New York, 1987
- First Edition
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: Trouve Books, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.Trouve Books
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Condition: Used - Good
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First paperback edition. Book is clean and tight. Page block and front cover have slight staining. Back cover corner is bent. 'The impulse behind this book is specifically philosophical, which is a way of saying that the circumstances of my life have been such that it mattered enormously to me to find an accurate way of talking about our relationships with domestic animals.'.
Seller Inventory # TJ230940
- Title
- Adam's Task: Calling Animal's by Name
- Author
- Hearne, Vicki
- Publisher
- Vintage Books, New York
- Publication year
- 1987
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0394755308
- ISBN 13
- 9780394755304
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Item weight
- 2 pounds
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
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Review
"[A] fascinating, incisive work of moral imagination." —Susan Sontag
"When Ms. Hearne relates a dog or horse story, the animals become full-fledged characters, as brightly delineated as people created by Dickens or Twain. . . . [Her] passion for her subject, along with her eclectic intelligence and technical expertise, succeeds in making even the most skeptical reader re-evaluate his relationship with animals and his preconceptions about communication. . . . Adam's Task stands as a most intriguing and original book." —Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
"There is no finer book than this one about the way language entwines humans and animals." —Audubon Magazine
"A beautiful, wonderful book . . . that permanently refreshes thought and feeling." —Boston Globe
"As witty, wise and rare a book as has come along in some time." —San Francisco Chronicle
"This wonderful book will become essential to anyone who chooses to live with a horse, dog, or cat." —David Leavitt
"A fascinating and often surprising discussion of animal-human encounters." —Atlantic Monthly
"This engrossing treatise on animal behavior and interspecies communication provides an astute and possibly unique synthesis of a domestic animal trainer's practical knowledge and the intellectually more distant and even sterile theories of the academic world." —Library Journal
"Through luminous anecdotes, she . . . develops rigorous and beautiful descriptions of the transactions between animals and people, what they entail, and what the expectations—on both sides—are." —Publishers Weekly
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Trouve Books
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