Alfie & Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe - Couverture rigide

Safina, Carl

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 132406546X ISBN 13 : 9781324065463

Editeur : WW Norton & Co, 2023

Synopsis

A moving account of raising, then freeing, an orphaned owl, whose lasting friendship with the author illuminates humanity’s relationship with the world

When ecologist Carl Safina and his wife, Patricia, took in a near-death baby owl, they expected that, like other wild orphans they’d rescued, she’d be a temporary presence. But Alfie’s feathers were not growing correctly, requiring prolonged care. And soon Carl and Patricia began to realise that the healing was mutual.

Alfie & Me is the story of the remarkable impact this little owl would have on their lives. The continuing bond of trust following her freedom―and her raising of her own wild brood―drew Carl and Patricia across the boundary into Alfie’s world, allowing them a view of existence from Alfie’s perspective. Interwoven with Safina’s reflections on humankind’s relationship with the living world across cultures and throughout history, Alfie & Me is a work of profound beauties and magical timing harboured within one upended year.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Carl Safina, author of Becoming Wild and Beyond Words, is the recipient of MacArthur, Guggenheim and National Science Foundation fellowships, and has written for The New York Times, Time, The Guardian and National Geographic.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: WW Norton & Co
• Date d'édition: 2023
• ISBN 10: 132406546X
• ISBN 13: 9781324065463
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 384
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible