Fox and I, an uncommon friendship, Catherine Raven
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Creator
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Subject
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- Biographies
- Belonging (Social psychology)
- Nature + Psychological aspects
- Biography
- Biologists -- Biography
- Foxes -- Biography
- Nature + Aspect psychologique
- Appartenance (Psychologie sociale)
- Relations homme-animal
- Montana -- Biographies
- Biologistes -- Biographies
- Autobiographies
- Raven, Catherine, 1959-
- Autobiography
- Human-animal relationships
- Montana -- Biography
- Renards -- Biographies
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Author
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Fox and I, an uncommon friendship, Catherine Raven
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
resource.biographical
autobiography
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
Fox and I
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
1249751470
Responsibility statement
Catherine Raven
Sub title
an uncommon friendship
Summary
When Catherine Raven finished her PhD in biology, she built herself a tiny cottage on an isolated plot of land in Montana. She was as emotionally isolated as she was physically, but she viewed the house as a way station, a temporary rest stop where she could gather her nerves and fill out applications for what she hoped would be a real job that would help her fit into society. In the meantime, she taught remotely and led field classes in nearby Yellowstone National Park. Then one day she realized that a mangy-looking fox was showing up on her property every afternoon at 4:15 p.m. She had never had a regular visitor before. How do you even talk to a fox? She brought out her camping chair, sat as close to him as she dared, and began reading to him from The Little Prince. Her scientific training had taught her not to anthropomorphize animals, yet as she grew to know him, his personality revealed itself and they became friends. From the fox, Catherine learned the single most important thing about loneliness: we are never alone when we are connected to the natural world. Friends, however, cannot save each other from the uncontained forces of nature. Fox and I is a poignant and remarkable tale of friendship, growth, and coping with inevitable loss—and of how that loss can be transformed into meaning. It is both a timely tale of solitude and belonging as well as a timeless story of one woman whose immersion in the natural world will change the way we view our surroundings—each tree, weed, flower, stone, or fox. -- Provided by publisher
Table of contents
Saint-Ex's Boa -- Little Brown Bats -- Vole Forest -- Two Black Dogs -- Rain Fox -- Dancing Fly -- Dancing Fox -- Panther Creek Fawn -- Last Day at River Cabins -- A Reptile Dysfunction -- Dr. and Mr. Frankenstein -- Endless Possibilities for Mischief -- Meadowlark -- Spotted Foxes -- Elk and Badgers -- Elephants -- Ehsles and Polar Bears -- Magpies -- Spotted Owls -- Sand Dollars -- Fields of Dun and Gunny
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