| International Standard Book Number |
9780593701850 (electronic book)
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780593701843 (hardcover)
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| International Standard Book Number |
0593701844 (hardcover)
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| Personal Name |
Dalton, Chloe, author.
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| Title Statement |
Raising hare : a memoir / Chloe Dalton.
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| Edition Statement |
First U.S. hardcover edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : Pantheon Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2025.
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| Physical Description |
x, 285 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-282).
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| Formatted Contents Note |
Prologue -- A winter leveret -- Bonded -- One month old : little hare -- No name -- May days : witch-hare -- Independence -- Four months old : home range -- August : light foot -- Leveret no more -- Ultimate trust -- Two years old : wonder -- Harekind -- Bolt from the blue -- Blood in the harvest -- Secret paths.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"A moving and fascinating meditation on freedom, trust, loss, and our relationship with the natural world, explored through the story of one woman's unlikely friendship with a wild hare. Imagine you could hold a baby hare and bottle-feed it. Imagine that it lived under your roof and lolloped around your bedroom at night, drumming on the duvet cover when it wanted your attention. Imagine that, over two years later, it still ran in from the fields when you called it and slept in your house for hours on end and gave birth to leverets in your study. For political advisor and speechwriter Chloe Dalton, who spent lockdown deep in the English countryside, far away from her usual busy London life, this became her unexpected reality. In February 2021, Dalton stumbles upon a newborn hare -- a leveret -- that had been chased by a dog. Fearing for its life, she brings it home, only to discover how impossible it is to rear a wild hare, most of whom perish in captivity from either shock or starvation. Through trial and error, she learns to feed and care for the leveret with every intention of returning it to the wilderness. Instead, it becomes her constant companion, wandering the fields and woods at night and returning to Dalton's house by day. Though Dalton feared that the hare would be preyed upon by foxes, stoats, feral cats, raptors, and even people, she never tried to restrict it to the house. Each time the hare leaves, Chloe knows she may never see it again. Yet she also understands that to confine it would be its own kind of death. Raising Hare chronicles their journey together, while also taking a deep dive into the lives and nature of hares, and the way they have been viewed historically in art, literature, and folklore. We witness first-hand the joy at this extraordinary relationship between human and animal, which serves as a reminder that the best things, and most beautiful experiences, arise when we least expect them"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Dalton, Chloe.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
European rabbit Great Britain Popular works.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
European rabbit Great Britain Anecdotes.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
European rabbit Behavior Great Britain Anecdotes.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
European rabbit Infancy Great Britain Anecdotes.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Hares Great Britain Anecdotes.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Human-animal relationships Popular works.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Autobiographies.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Informational works.
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