Publisher's Synopsis
Here Deborah Noyes embarks on a quest for understandingstruggling with science and loveattempting to distance, but also bring closer, the other” kingdom. What results is a visionary meditation on how myth, history, and culture have influenced our view of animals and shaped our lives with them. Smart and unsentimental, Noyes’s wide-ranging narrative and affectionate portraits raise difficult but important questions, challenging what we think we know about our animal fellows while helping us form new perceptions and realities. We are allbird, beast, and boymade of blood, bone, and beating heart. Where do they end and we begin?