Animals Make Us Human meets An Inconvenient Truth: a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist goes behind the scenes at one of the country’s most popular—and most controversial—destinations: a zoo.
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- Carton Qty: 20
- Selling Territory: W
- On Sale: 7/6/2010
- Nature
- Tr 9781401323462 $24.99 ($26.99)
- 304 pages; 6 1/8 X 9 1/4
- Every year, 175 million Americans visit a zoo. Now they can see the zoo as never before—in this compelling narrative from a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, who goes into the jungles, behind the cages, and into the corporate boardrooms to follow the care, feeding, and financing of this wild obsession.
- For many people, the notion of a wild animal confined—whether it’s a beached whale or caged lion—elicits a visceral response. The animals’ personalities are vividly portrayed and are sure to capture the readers’ hearts and minds.
- Zoo Story follows a compelling cast of unforgettable characters: a fierce Sumatran tiger who escapes her enclosure, four elephants ripped from the wilds of Africa, and overseeing them all, a visionary CEO whose ambitions push the zoo to its breaking point.
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Praise for Zoo Story:
“Tom French has given us a gorgeously written, meticulously reported, and incredibly moving look into the hearts and minds of animals and their keepers. You will never again visit a zoo without thinking of this remarkable story.”
—Jeffrey Zaslow, co-author of The Last Lecture and author of The Girls from Ames
“A reality-based book that takes the reader behind the scenes of a zoo. Everyone interested in animal, environmental, and conservation issues should read this fascinating book.”
—Temple Grandin, author of Animals in Translation and Animals Make Us Human
“This story, told by a master teller of such things, does more than take you inside the cages, fences and walls of a zoo. It takes you inside the human heart, and an elephant's, and a primate's, and on and on. It might break your own on the way through. I also learned some things. That elephants, like wives, get irritated when they are not in control, that gibbons, like old married couples, sing the same damn song every night, and that alpha chimps have a somewhat creepy fondness for tank tops. But I also learned that zoos, while an imperfect salvation, are often the only one. Tom French did in this book what he always does. He took real life and wrote it down for us, with eloquence and feeling and aching detail.”
—Rick Bragg, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author
“Tom French has given us a gorgeously written, meticulously reported, and incredibly moving look into the hearts and minds of animals and their keepers. You will never again visit a zoo without thinking of this remarkable story.”
—Jeffrey Zaslow, co-author of The Last Lecture and author of The Girls from Ames
“A reality-based book that takes the reader behind the scenes of a zoo. Everyone interested in animal, environmental, and conservation issues should read this fascinating book.”
—Temple Grandin, author of Animals in Translation and Animals Make Us Human
“This story, told by a master teller of such things, does more than take you inside the cages, fences and walls of a zoo. It takes you inside the human heart, and an elephant's, and a primate's, and on and on. It might break your own on the way through. I also learned some things. That elephants, like wives, get irritated when they are not in control, that gibbons, like old married couples, sing the same damn song every night, and that alpha chimps have a somewhat creepy fondness for tank tops. But I also learned that zoos, while an imperfect salvation, are often the only one. Tom French did in this book what he always does. He took real life and wrote it down for us, with eloquence and feeling and aching detail.”
—Rick Bragg, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author