Secrets of the Cat: Its Lore, Legend, and Lives – FULL INSTANT DOWNLOAD | PDF DOCX EPUB

Ebook Name: Secrets of the Cat: Its Lore, Legend, and Lives
ISBN-13: 9780062025012
ISBN-10: 0062025015
Addition ISBN: 9780061978043
Author(s): Barbara Holland, Publisher: HarperCollins e-books/Open Road Integrated Media, Copyright: 1988

What is really going on behind thoseluminous feline eyes? Affectionate yet aloof, intelligentand inquisitive yet dangerouslycareless, the more-or-lessdomesticated house catintrigues us as no other animal can.Now Barbara Holland offers cat loversa fascinating, funny, and refreshinglycandid look at their feline companions:their history, lore, and secrets, and theircomplicated relations with people andwith each other. Secrets of the Cat is a livelyappreciation of cats as we know andlove them, with witty analysis and freshobservations about felines both high andlow. Here are Winston Churchill’s gingertom, who attended cabinet meetings;Teddy Roosevelt’s cat, Slippers, whocame to dinner; and even the author’sown George II, who was bitten by amouse and adopted by a blue jay. BarbaraHolland’s warm, vivid speculations oncats’ lives and times—on their social,psychic, and mythological legacy, and theirimpenetrable mysteries—will give readersa delightful cat’s-eye view of the world.