Meetings With Remarkable Animals

Martin Clunes' book "Meetings With Remarkable Animals" explores the moving and astonishing ways animals have enriched our lives, from guide dogs to mine-clearing rats and wild dolphins. It celebrates the intelligence, loyalty, and companionship of extraordinary creatures whose lives have been intertwined with our own.

Format: Hardback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 07 November 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

FOR THE ANIMAL LOVERS IN YOUR LIFE - Gift this remarkable account of the moving and sometimes astonishing ways animals have enriched our lives, from national treasure Martin Clunes. ---- Guide-dog Laura needed a new home. And, after listening to her owner, Jaina, talk on the radio about what would happen to her much-loved guide and companion when she retired, Martin Clunes picked up the phone. He had always been a soft touch when it came to animals. One more couldn't hurt. Adopting Laura opened his eyes to the extraordinary care provided by assistance dogs, but also piqued his curiosity. Throughout history, our meetings with remarkable animals have eased, enriched, and sometimes saved our lives in countless and surprising ways. Our canine friends have guided us, rescued us, led us, protected us, and even given early warning of illness, but dogs are only part of the story. From the horses that went to war with the Light Brigade, to the mine-clearing Gambian Pouched Rat called Courage that helped make the peace, and from the pigeons carrying life-saving messages to the wild dolphin called Jock who befriended a traumatised young woman in Australia, in peace and war animals have always been there for us. Together with his own life-changing encounters with animals around the world, Martin has celebrated the intelligence, loyalty, and companionship of some truly extraordinary creatures whose lives have been entwined with our own. By turns heart-warming, inspiring, and always fascinating, Meetings With Remarkable Animals gives us a chance to meet them too.

Weight: 506g
Dimension: 242 x 160 x 28 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780241723784