A Walk in the Animal Kingdom Book by Jerry Dennis & 3 signed Glenn Wolff Prints
Item Number: 241
Time Left: CLOSED
Description
This silent auction item will be presented for final bidding at our annual picnic on Thursday, August 6th.
Includes:
The Third Volume in Jerry Dennis and Glenn Wolff's Wonders of Nature Series: A Walk in the Animal Kingdom: Essays on Animals Wild and Tame AND prints of 3 of Glenn Wolff's illustrations in the book. (All prints and book are signed by Glenn Wolff and Jerry Dennis.)
The prints measure 12x18.
About the Book:
ANIMALS ARE EVERYWHERE IN OUR LIVES. We follow them into the wild, we invite them into our homes, they inhabit our dreams, mythologies, folklores, and popular cultures. What is this powerful bond? Why are we so fascinated with animals of every kind? And why has our relationship with them always been riddled with such complexity and contradiction?
A Walk in the Animal Kingdom explores the world of animals with the inquisitiveness, depth, and gentle humor that readers across the globe have come to expect from the acclaimed author-artist team of Jerry Dennis and Glenn Wolff. The book is an inquiry into animals of the world, their astonishing diversity and abundance; their mating habits, defensive strategies, and other behaviors; their extraordinary senses of sight, hearing, and smell. It is also an exploration of our profound connection with them, from the joys they inspire and the fears they arouse, to their prominence in our lives as pets, team mascots, and embodiments of wild nature—and the paradox that allows us to battle to protect certain species, while ignoring others that are disappearing at a rate perhaps unequaled in the history of our planet.
Like the previous collaborations of Dennis and Wolff, A Walk in the Animal Kingdom is certain to become a classic among books about nature—its wonders, its complexities, and our place in it.
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A Walk in the Animal Kingdom: Essays on Animals Wild and Tame is the third volume in The Wonders of Nature Series by Jerry Dennis and Glenn Wolff. The previous books, about the wonders of sky and water, are It’s Raining Frogs and Fishes and The Bird in the Waterfall.
Special Instructions
About Glenn Wolff:
Glenn Wolff grew up in Traverse City, Michigan. He studied Printmaking at Northwestern Michigan College, and received his BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. His career began in New York as an illustrator for such clients as the New York Times, the Village Voice, the Central Park Conservancy, and the New York Zoological Society. In 1987 he returned to Northern Michigan concentrating on fine art and book illustration. The list of authors he has worked with include Stephanie Mills, John Gierach, and Robert Sullivan, but he is best known for his illustrations in the books of Jerry Dennis, starting with 1992’s It’s Raining Frogs and Fishes, and most recently The Windward Shore. Glenn’s mixed media fine art has been shown throughout the US and Canada, and is included in numerous private and public collections including The Dennos Museum Center, The Kellogg Foundation, and the International Crane Foundation. He has also been a frequent artist-in-residence for environmental organizations such as The Great Lakes Bioneers, Wings of Wonder, The Watershed Suite Project, and The North American Prairie Conference.
About Jerry Dennis:
Jerry Dennis grew up in rural northern Michigan and has earned his living since 1986 writing about the places where nature and human culture meet. His essays and short fiction have appeared in more than 100 publications, including The New York Times, Smithsonian, Audubon, Orion, American Way, Gray’s Sporting Journal, and Michigan Quarterly Review. His books, many of them illustrated by artist Glenn Wolff, are widely acclaimed, have won numerous awards, and have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, German, Portuguese, Czech, and (soon) Korean.
In 1999 the Michigan Library Association named Jerry the Michigan Author of the Year, and in 2003 the University of Louisville’s School of Arts and Sciences recognized his achievements in literature with its Outstanding Alumnus of the Year Award. He is a frequent guest speaker at universities and elsewhere and serves on the faculty of the University of Michigan’s Bear River Writers Conference, where he teaches creative non-fiction. He and his wife, Gail, live near the shore of Lake Michigan not far from Traverse City, Michigan.
In 2014 Jerry teamed with artist Glenn Wolff and creative director Gail Dennis to form Big Maple Press, publishing special editions of their books and making them available for sale only at independent bookstores. Read the story explaining why they took this step.