Thought to Exist in the Wild: Awakening Form the Nightmare of Zoos

Derrick Jensen and Karen Tweedy-Holmes

ISBN 10: 0972838716 / ISBN 13: 9780972838719

Published by No Voice Unheard, Santa Cruz, CA, 2007

About this Item

Paperback publication. First Edition. A FINE, like-new, bright, clean, tight copy sans flaws. "Derrick Jensen lays bare the reality of zoos: prisons for the wild creatures whose worlds we ahve utterly destroyed with our "progress." He makes apparent the repression and alienation that zoos represent.Yet, there is the glint of the unbreakable spirit of life in each of these beautiful living beings' eyes, and Jensen infuses us with hope for rsomething better. He gives us the courage to do whateve rit takes to reclaim a wild, pure and interconnected life with the natural world." PROLIFICALLY ILLUSTRATED in Karen Tweedy-Holmes' strikingly moving full page black & white photography with accompanying descriptive captions. 144 pages. GF3.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Thought to Exist in the Wild: Awakening Form the Nightmare of Zoos
• Publisher: No Voice Unheard, Santa Cruz, CA
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0972838716
• ISBN 13: 9780972838719
• Binding: Pictorial Softcover. Paperback
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued

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Synopsis

Provides a history of zoos, examines the faults of zoos, and argues for their dissolution.

About the Author

Called the philosopher poet of the ecological movement, Derrick Jensen the author of nine books, including the acclaimed titles, A Language Older than Words and The Culture of Make Believe
Photographer Karen Tweedy-Holmes, widely exhibited and published, is devoted to making black-and-white portraits of psychological depth and intensity. Her deepest interest is the animal world.
Authors reside: Jensen - Northern California coast; Tweedy-Holmes - New York City