This is the perfect book for any wildlife enthusiast: a unique selection of over 20 stories and extracts about the animal kingdom, from the very finest writers of the genre. This carefully selected collection features writers as diverse as Rudyard Kipling, John Steinbeck, Charles Darwin, Ted Hughes, Ernest Hemingway and Dick King-Smith. A fantastic introduction to many great writers, this is a great present for any animal-lover.It includes: "The Birds Began to Sing" - Janet Frame, "The Snow Goose" - Paul Gallico, "The Happy Prince" - Oscar Wilde, "Kes" - Barry Hines, "The Wedge-Tailed Eagle" - Geoffrey Dutton, "Godhanger" - Dick King-Smith, "Tarka the Otter" - Henry Williamson, "Charlotte's Web" - E. B. White, "The Old Man and the Sea" - Ernest Hemingway, "The Iron Woman" - Ted Hughes, "Noah's Ark" - "The King James Bible", "The Voyage of the Beagle" - Charles Darwin, "Wolf Brother" - Chief Buffalo, "Child" - Long Lance Son-Son, "Fetches the Mule" - James Berry, "The Green Donkey Driver" - Robert Louis Stevenson, "The Call of the Wild" - Jack London, "Waiting for Anya" - Michael Morpurgo Androcles, the "Lion" - Andrew Lang, "He Was a Good Lion" - Beryl Markham, "The Cat that Walked by Himself" - Rudyard Kipling, "The Tiger, the Brahman and the Jackal" - Joseph Jacobs.