We Give Our Hearts to Dogs to Tear
Title | We Give Our Hearts to Dogs to Tear PDF eBook |
Author | Alston Chase |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 253 |
Release | 2017-09-29 |
Genre | Pets |
ISBN | 1351298267 |
More than a hauntingly beautiful memoir about small dogs in Big Sky country, this book is a wise account of the relationships among dogs, humans, and the land that surrounds them. It is the story of successive generations of Jack Russell terriers, their animal friends, and their human companions. Alston Chase searches for the immortality of dogs, what makes them unique companions, and why we humans willingly give them our hearts knowing that someday they will be broken. This book will resonate with anyone who has ever loved a dog. Chase muses that dogs are the embodiment of spirit over mortality and through the window of their brief lives we glimpse eternity. This eternal includes the Earth, the land, and the bonds forged between people and dogs over thousands of years. Chase sees threats in the decline of rural life, unbridled urbanization, and in dog breeders who judge by conformation to breed standards and fashion rather than ability and health. An uplifting tribute to the dogs we love, and a reflection on the limitations of life, this book shows a triumph of the spirit. Rich in poetic citations, it is an environmental cry for help, a naturalistic appreciation of a dissolving world, and a deeply spiritual reminder that nothing loved is ever lost.
Unifruitco
Title | Unifruitco PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 66 |
Release | 1928 |
Genre | Banana trade |
ISBN |
Cold Noses & Warm Hearts
Title | Cold Noses & Warm Hearts PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Willow Creek Press |
Pages | 137 |
Release | 2012-07-03 |
Genre | Pets |
ISBN | 1607556855 |
When originally published in 1959, this marvelous collection of dog stories compiled by the late humorist Corey Ford was an immediate bestseller. For his edition, Ford selected pieces written by his friends and contemporaries whose names appeared on the mastheads of The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Life, and Colliers. The names read like a Who's Who of humor: Thurber, Benchley. Wodehouse, White, Woollcott, Marquis. Ford also provided balance with stories from Steinbeck, Lardner, Lawrence and others. including his own superbly poignant, classic short, "The Road to Tinkhamtown," presented here in its original version.
Our Dumb Animals
Title | Our Dumb Animals PDF eBook |
Author | George Thorndike Angell |
Publisher | |
Pages | 424 |
Release | 1872 |
Genre | Animal welfare |
ISBN |
Animals
Title | Animals PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 636 |
Release | 1916 |
Genre | Animal welfare |
ISBN |
The Dog Scrap Book - Bull Terrier Edition
Title | The Dog Scrap Book - Bull Terrier Edition PDF eBook |
Author | Various |
Publisher | Read Books Ltd |
Pages | 179 |
Release | 2013-01-29 |
Genre | Pets |
ISBN | 1447487567 |
This is a truly fascinating book which will appeal to all dog lovers with its enormously varied content of articles and items on the dog culled from the literature of all nations. The Bull Terrier is particularly well represented with numerous illustrations of famous dogs and their owners. A wealth of advice, knowledge, history, fiction and poetry is contained in the book's one hundred and twenty pages. This comprehensive source of canine fact and fable is interspersed with much humour and light hearted doggie anecdotes.Keywords: Famous Dogs Dog Lovers Bull Terrier History Fiction Culled Fable Anecdotes Doggie Illustrations Humour Literature Poetry
A Dictionary of Interesting and Important Dogs
Title | A Dictionary of Interesting and Important Dogs PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Conradi |
Publisher | Short Books |
Pages | 184 |
Release | 2019-11-07 |
Genre | Pets |
ISBN | 1780724055 |
Tin Tin’s Snowy, Odysseus’s Argos, Darwin’s Polly, Mary Queen of Scots’s 22 lap-dogs, Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Flush... Behind every great man or woman is a dog. A Dictionary of Interesting and Important Dogs is a rich compendium of the world’s most significant and beloved dogs. Embracing the intriguing and the provocative, the essential and the trivial, Peter J. Conradi forays into history, literature and personal anecdotes to unearth a treasure trove of canine characters. Discover the stories behind Karl Marx's and his daughter's Dogberry Club; the lapdogs who were secreted in first-class cabins on the Titanic and how they survived; Edinburgh’s Greyfriars Bobby who stayed by his master’s grave for 14 years; and the one undisputed fact about Shakespeare – his singular dislike for dogs. A Dictionary of Interesting and Important Dogs is a wonderful and witty homage to man’s most faithful friend.