Survival savvy
Listening time: under 4 minutes.
Inspired by the true story of a dog trained by the Soviets to...
Of curling waves
Tarka the otter enjoys his first exposure to the sea, with a wave being likened appropriately to a shell-fish.
'A...
The thoughts of a pig
A wonderfully involved tail of a pig's escape and eventual recapture.
Firstly, a protracted endeavour to find him, eventually discovered...
A visitation from a minor god
The past is a place which enriches me in almost all I do, and I love travelling there as much...
Can’t bear the noise
I don't blame them either. A delightful recollection of a sensible ursine response to the outrage of war in their...
One wrong move
Babur is one of my favourite dogs, full of character and occasionally stubborn and ornery. Here his new master, Rory...
Shoat or shote
A North American word for a young pig, especially one which is newly weaned.
Source: OED and Barry Lopez, Arctic...
As large as …
An unusual simile for size, here referring to bubbles. Bubbles feature largely in Tarka the Otter, often blown by the...
An insolence of goats
Reading Gavin Maxwell's lively description of a kitchen takeover by goats makes me wonder how we can call them collectively...
Water wild
A splashing description of sheer untrammelled liquid joy in the second otter Gavin Maxwell claimed from the wild. This turned...
Mule meets Hamlet
Grossman has a wonderful capacity to imagine the minds and feelings of animals, and while chronicling the horrors of man's...
I love Babur – I
One of the great dogs I've met through reading is Babur, whom Rory Stewart acquired, against his better judgement, while...
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