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Book Review: Wild Chorus: Finding Harmony with Whales, Wolves, and Other Animals

September 16, 2024July 16, 2024 by John Yunker

Guest book review by Gene Helfman. “…a woman’s place…is in the wild.” This remarkable book is a memoir, a unique lesson in natural history, a love poem to the wild, …

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Categories Book Reviews, Mountaineers Books, Nonfiction

On Animals by Susan Orlean

December 2, 2022 by John Yunker

Guest book review by Gene Helfman. “. . . are such rare, extraordinary kinships valuable because they remind us of a continuity with living creatures that we easily forget?”  Susan …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Birds, Book Reviews, Endangered Species, Nonfiction, Pets

Beyond The Human Realm

August 11, 2021 by JoeAnn Hart

Beyond the Human Realm, A Novel by Gene Helfman (Luminare Press, July, 2021 Review by JoeAnn Hart             It’s not an easy feat to write in an animal POV without …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Conservation, Ecology, Endangered Species, Fiction, Oceans, Pets, Sustainability

Beyond Words: The more we study animals, the smarter they get

September 29, 2019July 29, 2015 by John Yunker

In Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel, Carl Safina sets out on a global journey to listen to and understand animals on their terms and not ours. By the end …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Conservation, Endangered Species, Henry Holt and Company, Nonfiction, Oceans

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