Animal Dreams Animal Dreams

Animal Dreams

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Publisher Description

Animal Dreams collects David Brooks’ thought-provoking essays about how humans think, dream and write about other species. Brooks examines how animals have featured in Australian and international literature and culture, from ‘The Man from Snowy River’ to Rainer Maria Rilke and The Turin Horse, to live-animal exports, veganism, and the culling of native and non-native species. In his piercing, elegant, widely celebrated style, he considers how private and public conversations about animals reflect older and deeper attitudes to our own and other species, and what questions we must ask to move these conversations forward, in what he calls ‘the immense work of undoing’.


For readers interested in animal welfare, conservation, and the relationship between humans and other species, Animal Dreams will be an essential, richly rewarding companion.


Praise for Animal Dreams


‘one of Australia’s most skilled, unusual and versatile writers’


– Peter Pierce, The Sydney Morning Herald.


‘No one writes about animals like David Brooks.’


– Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (author of The Assault on Truth, When Elephants Weep and Lost Companions)


‘Beautifully written and emotionally and intellectually enthralling. The best book I have ever read on relations between humans and animals and the ‘redress’ we owe them. It makes you angry, it makes you weep; it makes you determined to rethink and to act.’


– Helen Tiffin, FAHA (co-author of The Empire Writes Back and Wild Man from Borneo: A Cultural History of the Orangutang)

GENRE
Science & Nature
RELEASED
2021
April 1
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
290
Pages
PUBLISHER
Sydney University Press
SELLER
The University of Sydney
SIZE
6.9
MB
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