By paying ecstatic attention to grasses, insects, birds and animals, Catherine Raven allows us to hear what nature is saying to us. “This intimate and poetic account of a biologist’s friendship with a fox overturns the assumption that the world exists for humans to dominate and control. The story of Catherine Raven’s and the fox’s friendship charmed me and drew me in completely.” -Ian Frazier, author of Great Plains “The observations of high-desert nature-of wildlife, plants, landscapes, weather-in this book are some of the best you will ever read.

How did we end up so distant from our animal friends?” - The New York Times “Allowing every animal on the page its full agency, Fox and I crisply upends the hierarchy that places humans at the top of a pyramid… By the end of Fox and I, I found myself deeply lonely for the kind of belonging Raven found on the land. If Thoreau had read The Little Prince, he would have written Fox and I.” -Yann Martel, author of Life of Pi More than that, it’s the tale of a human mind trained to be logical meeting and being touched by Nature and coming to realize a greater truth. “A wise and intimate book about a solitary woman, a biologist by training, who befriends a fox. This uplifting fable-like true story reveals the power of friendship and our interconnectedness with the natural world but is an original and beautiful work that introduces a stunning new voice. Though this is a story of survival, it is also a poignant tale of living in the wilderness and coping with loss. But friends cannot always save each other from the uncontained forces of nature. Her scientific training had taught her not to anthropomorphize animals, but as she grew to know him, his personality revealed itself-and he became her friend. He eventually sat near her as she read to him from The Little Prince or Dr. One day, she realized that the fox who had been appearing at her house was coming by every day at 4:15. Yet she never felt at home with people, and built a house on a remote plot of land in Montana. She managed to put herself through college and graduate school, eventually earning a Ph.D. Drawn to the natural world, for years she worked as a ranger in National Parks, at times living in her run-down car or camping on a piece of land in Montana she bought from a colleague. Catherine Raven left home at 15, fleeing an abusive father and an indifferent mother.

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