Synopses & Reviews
Henrietta was an ordinary New York City cat until she ventured overseas with foreign correspondent Christopher S. Wren and his wife and children. Over seventeen years and tens of thousands of miles, she became a plucky, indispensable companion for the reporter as he covered world events in Moscow, Cairo, Beijing, Ottawa, and Johannesburg. andlt;BRandgt; Wren's often hilarious and sometimes poignant account of an American family's adventures crisscrossing the globe shows them coping with chaos in faraway places -- always with the help of their ever-resourceful feline. The result is a charming tale about a spunky, curious pet who earned the right to be ranked among the world's most widely traveled cats.
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Jules Wagman andlt;iandgt;St. Louis Post-Dispatchandlt;/iandgt; Delightful...Maybe cats ought to be standard issue to all foreign correspondents.
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Roger Caras author of andlt;iandgt;A Dog Is Listening: The Way Some of Our Closest Friends View Usandlt;/iandgt; The only one I would like to talk to more than Henrietta -- the cat who covered the world -- is Christopher Wren, the andlt;iandgt;New York Timesandlt;/iandgt; correspondent who covered it with her. A cat for all climes, deft and delightful.
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Lesley Stahl I enjoyed every page, every country, every adventure: from Henrietta's catching mice and eating caviar in Moscow to prosciutto in Rome to getting lost in Cairo. Seeing the world through the perspective of a cat is somehow both enlightening and enriching. And fun. I loved it.
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Peter Gethers author of andlt;iandgt;The Cat Who Went to Parisandlt;/iandgt; Christopher Wren doesn't just understand foreign affairs, he understands feline affairs. Henrietta would have made a worthy companion for Norton.
About the Author
Christopher S. Wren retired from andlt;Iandgt;The New York Timesandlt;/Iandgt; after nearly 29 years as a reporter, foreign correspondent and editor. He headed andlt;Iandgt;Timesandlt;/Iandgt; news bureaus in Moscow, Cairo, Beijing, Ottawa and Johannesburg, covered the United Nations, and reported from the former andlt;st1:place andgt;Soviet Unionandlt;/st1:placeandgt;, Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the Middle East, andlt;st1:country-region andgt;andlt;st1:place andgt;Chinaandlt;/st1:placeandgt;andlt;/st1:country-regionandgt; and Southeast Asia, Africa, South America and andlt;st1:place andgt;andlt;st1:country-region andgt;Canadaandlt;/st1:country-regionandgt;andlt;/st1:placeandgt;.andnbsp; He also worked as an editor at andlt;Iandgt;Lookandlt;/Iandgt; and andlt;Iandgt;Newsweekandlt;/Iandgt; magazines and at the andlt;Iandgt;International Herald Tribuneandlt;/Iandgt; in andlt;st1:place andgt;andlt;st1:city andgt;Parisandlt;/st1:Cityandgt;andlt;/st1:placeandgt;.andlt;BRandgt;andlt;BRandgt;Wren graduated with honors from Dartmouth College and Columbia andlt;st1:place andgt;andlt;st1:placetype andgt;Universityandlt;/st1:PlaceTypeandgt; andlt;st1:placetype andgt;Schoolandlt;/st1:PlaceTypeandgt;andlt;/st1:placeandgt; of Journalism and studied on graduate fellowships at the andlt;st1:place andgt;andlt;st1:placetype andgt;Universityandlt;/st1:PlaceTypeandgt; of andlt;st1:placename andgt;Edinburghandlt;/st1:PlaceNameandgt;andlt;/st1:placeandgt; and Stanford. After leaving andlt;Iandgt;The Timesandlt;/Iandgt;, he lived in andlt;st1:place andgt;andlt;st1:city andgt;St. Petersburgandlt;/st1:Cityandgt;, andlt;st1:country-region andgt;Russiaandlt;/st1:country-regionandgt;andlt;/st1:placeandgt;, training Russian journalists and assisting independent newspapers across nine time-zones. In Central andlt;st1:place andgt;Asiaandlt;/st1:placeandgt;, he ran Russian-speaking workshops for young journalists in ten cities and towns across Kazakhstan, and advised newspaper editors in andlt;st1:country-region andgt;Uzbekistanandlt;/st1:country-regionandgt; and andlt;st1:place andgt;andlt;st1:country-region andgt;Kyrgyzstanandlt;/st1:country-regionandgt;andlt;/st1:placeandgt;. He taught at andlt;st1:place andgt;andlt;st1:placename andgt;Princetonandlt;/st1:PlaceNameandgt; andlt;st1:placetype andgt;Universityandlt;/st1:PlaceTypeandgt;andlt;/st1:placeandgt; before coming to andlt;st1:place andgt;andlt;st1:city andgt;Dartmouthandlt;/st1:Cityandgt;andlt;/st1:placeandgt;, where he is visiting professor in its Master of Arts program in liberal studies.