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639.9092 Law
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Henry Holth & Co. (1981), Edition: 1st, 308 pages
Description
Using anecdotes and personal obsevances, the author describes the habits of the variety of wild animals taken in and cared for by him and his wife on their farm in Ontario.
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LibraryThing member Ella_Jill
I generally love R. D. Lawrence’s books. This one is about various animals he rescued in the course of several years and then returned back to the wilderness once they could fend for themselves – thus the title. Some of them returned to visit occasionally, on a poor hunting day, in which case
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he “invited them to dinner.” Interestingly, he observes that sometimes the greatest challenge was presented not by a bear or a lynx, but by something small, common and defenseless. Once, for example, he saved a robin chick from a snake and then was faced with the task of finding food for it, crawling around his farm with a jar looking for ants, beetles and caterpillars. It’s a great book about animals and wilderness. Show Less
Pages
308