The Voice of the Wild: An Anthology of Animal Stories

When the world was a wilder place, people wondered about animals the way they wondered about their neighbors…
 
Now there aren’t so many animals, nor occasions to encountered them. In The Voice of the Wild, Patricia Beard has collected the best of classic and contemporary fiction and nonfiction in which animals are at the heart of things. Unsentimental images capture the savageness as well as vulnerability of a myriad of species, while at the same time exposing Homo sapiens: an…