num_pages: 323
description: From one of the finest nature writers at work in America today; a lyrical dramatic illuminating tour of the hidden domain of wild animals.Whether recalling the experience of being chased through the Grand Canyon by a bighorn sheep swimming with sharks off the coast of British Columbia watching a peregrine falcon perform acrobatic stunts at 200 miles per hour or engaging in a tense face-off with a mountain lion near a desert waterhole Craig Childs captures the moment so vividly that he puts the reader in his boots.Each of the forty brief compelling narratives in The Animal Dialogues focuses on the author's own encounter with a particular species and is replete with astonishing facts about the species' behavior habitat breeding and lifespan. But the glory of each essay lies in Childs's ability to portray the sometimes brutal beauty of the wilderness to capture the individual essence of wild creatures to transport the reader beyond the human realm and deep inside the animal kingdom.
language: English
title: The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild
publisher: Little, Brown and Company