Review: The Animal Series from Reaktion Books
In light of the dwindling population of the world's creatures, Globe and Mail columnist Martin Levin recently praised the Animal series from Reaktion Books:
There are also thousands of works on individual animals, but I draw your attention to a delightfully different series on specific creatures, some by no means cuddly. Instead of concentrating on the -- largely baleful -- impact of humans on the other animals with which we grudgingly share this planet, a lively and lovely series from Britain's Reaktion Books focuses on the cultural history of critters: those we love or admire -- whale, bear, parrot, dog, bee, falcon; those we are ambivalent about or perhaps indifferent to -- crow and oyster; but also those we regard with distrust or even loathing -- ant, cockroach, rat and snake.
