World of Animals - An Anthology of Lore, Legend, and Literature

This collection of writings selected from a vast literature about animals contributes something to an over-all picture of human beings' relations with and attitudes toward the animal kingdom.

List of contents

Introduction; One: Profiles and Portraits; Two: Hunters and Sportsmen; Three: The Wide Wide World; Four: Cruelty and Fellow Feeling; Five: Legends, Fantasies, and Fictions; Six: From Aristotle to Darwin To?; Seven: Destruction and Conservation; Eight: Head and Heart

About the author

Joseph Krutch

Summary

Human beings share the earth with many other living creatures and have dealt with them in many different ways

Product details

• Authors: Joseph (EDT) Krutch, Joseph Wood Krutch
• Assisted by: Joseph Krutch (Editor), Joseph Wood Krutch (Editor)
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.09.2010
• EAN: 9781412814409
• ISBN: 978-1-4128-1440-9
• No. of pages: 509
• Subjects: Fiction > Mixed anthologies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Zoology; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Folklore, myths & legends, Anthologies: general, Anthologies (non-poetry), Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology)