The dog who understood
This mongrel, scooped up off the streets, in Vasily Grossman's imagined story of the real creature who was the first...
A cry like …
Williamson pays close attention to the calls and cries of birds and animals, and here he distinguishes between the mutual...
As smooth as …
Of course, this simile is obvious when you see it, but have you ever seen it before? Please try incorporating...
Hunger-making smell
An undertow of this animal life-loving adventure is hunger. We must be one of the few species having a significant...
Of pebble-play and glass-green
A lasting impression of Tarka the Otter is of the playfulness of these and other creatures. Tarka plays with anything to...
The mule and the mare
Listening time: under 3 minutes
Grossman writes with great empathy of animals and their experiences. Here an...
As soft as …
Having never even noticed the buds of the willow, this simile for softness and greyness struck me. How observant of...
Of edible houses
A donkey nabbed by the Italian army in the Second World War finds himself in Abyssinia where, from his perspective,...
Meet the Barone
Listening time: under 4 minutes.Â
Casting back across the sweep of history, there is only a handful of...
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