Fox
By (Author) Martin Wallen
Reaktion Books
Reaktion Books
1st October 2006
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
Cultural studies
599.775
Paperback
208
Width 135mm, Height 190mm
358g
Foxes are nearly ubiquitous throughout the world, living in widely different habitats from forest to desert to the Arctic. What is surprising, though, is that scientists admit that very little is actually known about the lives and habits of foxes. The reason, which this book explores in depth, is that foxes are almost universally despised as being wicked.
'Wallen's treatment of his subject maximises the fox's glamour while raising some intriguing questions about cross-cultural and transhistorical meanings.' - Anthrozoos 'lives up to the high standard we have come to expect from this publisher ... outstanding for its photographs ... a book deserving a place on one's bookshelves.' - Highland News
Martin Wallen is Professor of English in the Department of English, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma. He is the author of Coleridge's Ancient Mariner: An Experimental Edition of Texts and Revisions (1993) and City of Health, Fields of Disease: Revolution in the Poetry, Medicine, and Philosophy of Romanticism (2004).