Diary of a Dog Walker: Time Spent Following a Lead - Hardcover

Stourton, Edward

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0857520075 ISBN 13: 9780857520074

Verlag: Doubleday, 2011

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Anyone who ever walks a dog will know that if you are accompanied by a dog you can talk to anyone, and anyone can talk to you - about anything. What is more, while we may know that a dog is just a dog, we continue to allow ourselves to speak and think of our dogs as friends, individuals with a full claim on our affections. 'The reward is that dog-walking becomes like reading a novel, or watching a play: disbelief is suspended and for an hour or so, we are given licence to escape ordinary life. Fantasy flourishes and really quite trivial moments in a dog's life become a source of wonder to be laughed about and even worried over..'. As Edward Stourton takes Kudu for his walk he finds himself considering the whole gamut of things canine: Just how well does he know Kudu - and can our dogs know us as well? Do dogs perceive ownership as we do? How devoted is a dog? Are dogs ever really guilty? And why are they a symbol of depression when so much of the time our dogs cheer us up...? Along the way he finds himself exploring much bigger subjects - war, bravery; office politics, current affairs, all given sudden levity and a new sanity when viewed through the prism of walking the dog. Funny, touching and surprisingly revealing - this is a sparkling source of amusement and comfort for dog-walkers everywhere.

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Edward Stourton is the author of five previous books. He is newspaper columnist , writer and presenter of several high-profile current affairs programmes and documentaries for radio and television, and regularly presents BBC Radio Four programmes such as The World at One, The World this Weekend, Sunday and Analysis. He is a frequent contributor to the Today programme, where for ten years he was one of the main presenters.

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Our dogs are our friends. We choose to believe that they understand us intuitively, that we can confide in them and that they will support us without question. In return we lavish them with affection, overlook faults and invest them with glorious qualities we rarely spot in our fellow humans. Walking the dog allows us to give fantasy full rein. New vistas open up. Social gatherings occur that are entirely outside our normal day-to-day experience ...

Edward Stourton's columns, recording his regular excursions with Kudu, the Springer spaniel, appeared fortnightly in the Telegraph from May 2009 until September 2010. They form the basis for this witty, charming and revealing book of canine musings. Ed's focus might momentarily seem trivial, but his canvas proves to be immeasurably wide. Kudu's small trips to the park offer big insights into romantic attachment, warfare, guilt and depression, honour and heroism, our sense of duty, beauty and the hard facts of life's pecking order.

Engaging and enlightening, Diary of a Dog-Walker will be utterly irresistible for any man or woman with a dog.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Doubleday
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0857520075
• ISBN 13: 9780857520074
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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