![]() ![]() The author never at any point sentimentalizes the relationship of the man and the animal. The man's story and the cat's run parallel in many ways, and in the end it is the cat who 'liberates' the man. On the whole, he concludes, the cat makes a better job of living. ![]() He leads his in the jungle of civilization. She leads her own animal life in her private jungle. The man develops an affection for the beautiful, indifferent creature in his care, but he does not deceive himself that the cat 'loves' him. The cat and the man learn to adjust themselves to each other, on a basis of mutual toleration. It is the story of a little female cat named by her owner John Ainsworth, newspaper man, Lucia. The author insists that this is not a story for cat lovers, but for "those who admire and respect the essential animal characteristics of this most beautiful, interesting and fundamentally wild creature. Some edge wear, chipping and small loss to top and bottom of jacket and spine, some slight browning to spine, corners rubbed with small loss, some slight overall dust staining, some faint spotting to endpapers and page fore edges, not price clipped (8s 6d), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. ![]()
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