"One Kingdom":Our Lives with Animals by Deborah Noyes is an interesting and educational fiction book about the human-animal bond in myth, histoory, science,and story. there's always been a human bound with animals,"The first section of this book deals with historical ways in which humankind has approached animals; the second covers contemporary positions and future options. here Deborah Noyes embards on a quest for understanding-struggling with science and love-attempting to distance, but also bring closer, the "other" kingdom. What results is a visionary meditation on how myth, history and culture have influenced our view of animals and shaped our lives wiht them. Smart and unsentimental, Noyes's wide-ranging narrative and affectionate portraits raise difficult but important questions,challenging what we think we know about our animal fellows while helping us form new perceptions and realities.
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