Cover image for Famous & curious animal stories.
Famous & curious animal stories.
Title:
Famous & curious animal stories.
Publication Information:
New York, N.Y. : Gallery Books, [1989]

©1989
Physical Description:
377 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
General Note:
Reprint. Originally published: Great Britain : Octopus Books, 1982.

And who, with Eden / John Collier -- A buffalo hunt / Washington Irving -- Troubles in the fold / Thomas Hardy -- We think the world of you / J.R. Ackerley -- The stolen white elephant / Mark Twain.
Language:
English
Contents:
Bel Ria / Sheila Burnford -- Life with Mij / Gavin Maxwell -- Gilded cage / Alan Coren -- The race / Leo Tolstoy -- The rat who wasn't having any / William Garnett -- The grey cub / Jack London -- Animals at Alconleigh / Nancy Mitford -- The triumph of Moby Dick / Herman Melville -- Trinket's colt / E..̃ Somerville and Martin Ross -- A sea of headwaiters / Gerald Durrell -- Stumberleap / Henry Williamson -- The dog that bit people / James Thurber -- The bull that thought / Rudyard Kipling -- The pacing mustang / Ernest Thompson Seton -- Tobermory / Saki -- Pig-Hoo-o-o-o-ey! / P.G. Wodehouse -- The hound of the Baskervilles / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- It shouldn't happen to a vet / James Herriot -- The country of the Houyhnhnms / Jonathan Swift -- Lady into fox / David Garnett -- A cat in the window / Derek Tangye -- Flush / Virginia Woolf -- African game / Sir H. Rider Haggard --
ISBN:
9780831703752
Format :
Book