One Kingdom
Author. Deborah Noyes
In ancient Egypt people worshipped cats, and in India the cow is sacred. Today in America we flock to zoos in record numbers and pamper our pets. But what do we really know about animals? And what do we feel in spite of them? Walking a mile in their paws, feathers, or fur is harder than it seems.
Here Deborah Noyes embarks on a quest for understanding, struggling science with science and love, attempting to distance but also bring closer the other kingdom. What results is a visionary meditation on how myth, history, and culture have influenced our views of animals and shaped our lives with them. Smart and unsentimental, Noyes’s wide ranging narrative and passionate portraits raise difficult but important questions, challenging what we think we know about our animal fellows while forming new perceptions with realities. We are all, bird, beast and boy, made of blood, bone and beating heart. Where do they end and we begin?
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