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- From: rsquires@cyclops.eece.unm.edu (Roger Squires)
- Subject: Re: non-fiction reading (was Re: _Dog Soldiers_ by R. Stone, a wild ride!)
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 01:21:38 GMT
- Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
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- > twain@milton.u.washington.edu (Barbara Hlavin) writes:
- >>
- >> You might take a gander at _King Solomon's Ring_,
- >> by Konrad Z. Lorenz.
- >
- >...how animals and human beings communicate with each other.
- >...different hierarchies communicating among themselves.
- >Which is Lorenz's book about?
- >
-
- The former. And no, I don't recall seeing any
- swastikas among the neat drawings, though I'm
- sure you can find them if you look hard enough.
-
- The premise of the book was that Lorenz had a
- reputation among his colleages for being able
- to raise and breed rare species that noone else
- had success with, and he tells us his secret...
- the book consists of amusing anecdotes about the
- different animals he raised and related to,
- mostly birds if I remember aright (the drawing of
- the Raven wielding a mean beak on his eyebrows
- springs to mind :) ). Anyway, certainly not a
- technical book -- for the general reader.
-
- I recycled this one back to the library thrift
- shop where I got it from, so it didn't make too
- much of an impression on me, but it's certainly
- worth a flip-through at the library. I'm a
- sucker for books that have drawings randomly
- scattered over the page, especially gooseprints
- (which reminds me, I *must* get to the bookstore
- and order a copy of Peterson's Field Guide to
- Animal Tracks, quite a *neat* book).
-
- >
- >--Barbara
-
- rms
-