Adam's Task by Vicki Hearne

Adam's Task by Vicki Hearne

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A groundbreaking meditation on our human-animal relationships and the moral code that binds it. Adam's Task Widely praised, highly influential, and now with a new foreword by New York Times bestselling author Karen Joy Fowler, Adam's Task will make every trainer, animal psychologist, and animal-lover stop, think, and question.

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Adam's Task by Vicki Hearne

A groundbreaking meditation on our human-animal relationships and the moral code that binds it. Adam's Task Widely praised, highly influential, and now with a new foreword by New York Times bestselling author Karen Joy Fowler, Adam's Task will make every trainer, animal psychologist, and animal-lover stop, think, and question.

Vicki Hearne was an accomplished scholar of linguistics, literature, philosophy, and behavioral psychology as well as a poet. She was a professor at Yale University and operated a dog-training school for years in Westbrook, Connecticut.

Donald McCaig, the author of Jacob's Ladder, Rhett Butler's People, and Canaan. He and his wife, Anne, work a sheep farm in the western mountains of Virginia.

Karen Joy Fowler is a New York Times' bestselling author of six novels, including The Jane Austen Book Club and We Are Completely Beside Ourselves, which was shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize. She lives in Santa Cruz, California.

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ISBN 13 9781602390027
ISBN 10 1602390029
Title Adam's Task
Author Vicki Hearne
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Skyhorse Publishing
Year published 2007-03-15
Number of pages 288
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.