Excerpt
Long before I became fully hostage to a life of reading, I was attracted to books like Fred Gibsons Old Yeller and Savage Sam and Sterling Norths Rascal and The Wolfing, books that bore witness to (and gloriTed) the depths and breadth that the man-animal bond could reach. I had already felt the unmistakable and again comforting presence of grace when in the company of animals, especially wild animals: the stirrings of what Edward O. Wilson has labeled biophilia” our attachment to all living things.
From Colter
Copyright (c) 2000 by Rick Bass. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company.