My Cousin & Me

My Cousin & Me is a powerful natural history memoir of two skinny boys living in the hinterlands of Haliburton. Scattered over these pages are 372 of the author's rare wildlife photographs of wolves, bears, fishers, deer, eagles, moths,moose, mice, and more. Enthralled by the glorious life around them, one of these boys comes to realize that all this beauty is the result of evolution by natural selection -- Charles Darwin's great idea.

Predators and prey do a dance together in the struggle for existence. Each hones the other to perfection. It's not a good day to die -- it never is! So this eternal chase continues. In the course of this chase, as Darwin writes, "There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness,and misery."