Book description
What does Jenny Diski know about animals? She's really not sure. There
is, however, one thing of which she is certain: our relationships with
and attitudes to animals are really worth thinking about. In What I
Don't Know About Animals, she shows why. She sets out to investigate
what she does and doesn't know about animals. She remembers the stuffed
cuddly creatures from her childhood; the animal books she read; the
cartoons she watched; the strays she found; the animals who have lived
and still live with her; the animals she has observed close up, and
those she has feared. She examines human beings, too, and the way in
which they have looked at, studied, treated and written about the
non-human creatures with whom we share the planet. Subtle, intelligent
and brilliantly observed, What I Don't Know About Animals is an engaging
look at what it means to be human, and what it means to be animal.
