Blogging Wildlife: The Perception of Animals by Hikers on the Appalachian Trail

ISBN-13: 9780367695392 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 172 str.

UK) Marx Kate (University of Exeter

Opis

This volume reports on the encounters between hikers and wildlife on The Appalachian Trail. Based on narratives provided by trail hikers, it explores the ways in which humans relate to the animals with whom they temporarily shared a home and the meaning constituted by non-human animals in the context of the walkers’ narrative journeys.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Hiking as Pilgrimage, and Wild Animals on the Trail  2. 'Real' Wilderness Needs a 'Real' Predator: Hikers and Black Bears  3. Cuteness on the Trail  4. Ugly, Scary, and Disgusting: Uncomfortably Close Encounters with Mice, Snakes, Insects, and Other ‘Critters’ on the Trail  5. Chirps, Quacks, Croaks, Howls, and 'What Was That?': Animal Sounds on the Trail  Conclusion

O autorze

Kate Marx was a postdoctoral research associate in the research group Exeter Anthrozoology as Symbiotic Ethics (EASE) at the University of Exeter, UK. She is currently Social Research Manager at Waterwise, a not-for-profit organisation which advocates for water conservation in the UK.