Animals

"For thousands of years, humans have pondered the difference between themselves and other animals. "Reason," say some. "Souls," say others. More philosophical folk say, "Taxes." But few can dispute that animals - like humans, their cousins and neighbors - are among the most sublime wonders of the world we inhabit.". "These photographs bridge some of the differences by surveying - usually with telephoto lenses - the landscapes that humans and animals share: African jungles, Ohio waterways, the wild streets of New York City and Chicago, circuses, carnivals, zoos from California to Florida, and the sky that arches over all life. Culled from five decades' worth of the acclaimed photographer Art Shay's illustrious body of work, these pictures lovingly and often acerbically capture miraculous moments of creatures great and small, wild and domestic. Artful and moving, they run the gamut of emotions from pity and compassion to laughter and joy."--BOOK JACKET.