NEWS FLASH!
Thought to Exist in the Wild wins Grand Prize in the
2008 Eric Hoffer Book Award contest!!!
Read the press release here.
Thought to Exist in the Wild:
Awakening from the Nightmare of Zoos
Text by Derrick Jensen
Photographs by Karen Tweedy-Holmes
"Finally, someone has the courage to question zoos. Animals in zoos are not ambassadors teaching us about the natural world, they're
unwilling
prisoners,
teaching us how we as humans seem to
need to
dominate
every living being on
the planet.
This is a
brave
book and a much needed voice
on behalf of the animals."
- Bill Maher, Host of HBO's “Real Time with Bill Maher”
"Derrick Jensen lays bare the reality of zoos: prisons for the wild creatures
whose worlds we have utterly destroyed with our ‘progress'. He
makes
apparent the repression and alienation that zoos represent… Yet,
there
is the glint of the unbreakable spirit of life in each of
these
beautiful
living beings' eyes, and Jensen infuses
us
with hope
for something better.
He gives us the
courage
to do
whatever it takes to reclaim a wild,
pure
and
interconnected life with the natural world."
- Andy Hurley, drummer, Grammy-nominated rock band Fall Out Boy
"Sarcastic and poetic but always urgent and angry. A good choice for presenting the other side in the moral debate about zoos." - Booklist
"An impassioned argument for the dissolution of zoos and a return to a lifestyle that enables man to live in equal relationship to his animal, plant, and inanimate neighbors in nature." - ForeWord
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