[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On my to-read list are: Ishmael; Watership Down; Tales From
> Watership Down; and The Dolphins of Pern. I'll probably get
> through Ishmael in a week or two at the most. It's pretty
> short, and I am told it is a story I will probably like, and
> I want to get back into reading at full speed to get back in
> the habit.
BTW, SILVERHAIR is another good book in that vein, told from
a mammoth's perspective. Mammoth legends in the book reflect
a surprising knowledge of natural history, and I can't quite
wrap my brain around how they know that stuff: Race memory?
Oral traditions passed down from the first mammals? I can
easily imagine mammoths having a complex language, based on
recent discoveries about elephants, but could early shrew-like
mammals have enough language skills to tell a story like that?
Oh well, I guess that's the "fantasy" part of the story... ;-)
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