Reindeer Reflections: Lessons from an Ancient Culture - Hardcover

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Dr. Jerry Haigh was born in Kenya and educated in Glasgow as a veterinarian. Upon graduation in Scotland, he moved back to Africa, where he lived and worked for over ten years. During his time in Africa he met his wife, Dr. Joanne van de Riet, with whom he has two children, Karen and Charles. In 1975 Jerry and his family moved from Kenya to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, where he took up a post as a wildlife veterinarian at the University of Saskatchewan’s Western College of Veterinary Medicine. Jerry’s career-long experience with wildlife has spanned over five decades and four continents. He has worked on species ranging from elephants, to wild dogs and polar bears, to moose. He is the author of Of Moose and Men: A Wildlife Vet’s Pursuit of the World’s Largest Deer, The Trouble with Lions: A Glasgow Vet in Africa, Porcupines to Polar Bears: Adventures of a Wildlife Veterinarian, and Wrestling with Rhinos: The Adventures of a Glasgow Vet in Kenya. He and Joanne, together for over 50 years now, live near Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

Yann Martel is the author of the international bestseller and multi-award-winning novel Life of Pi. He is also the author of The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios, Self, Beatrice & Virgil, and 101 Letters to a Prime Minister. He lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, with the writer Alice Kuipers and their four children.

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"In this book, there is much about reindeer, or caribou as we call them in North America (did you know that, reader, that caribou and reindeer are the same thing? Did you really? I bet you didn’t). Reindeer in Scandinavia, reindeer in Mongolia, reindeer in Russia and Alaska and Saskatchewan, reindeer everywhere, with even a little detour to talk about Santa’s reindeer. But the book goes deeper than that, because, of course, when we talk about animals, we’re never only talking about animals. We’re also talking about ourselves. We see ourselves through animals, we see our commonalities and our distinction, we see that we have never entirely left Noah’s Ark, but still live with them in a mysterious communion that continues to fascinate. In looking at animals, we see the best of ourselves, and the worst, a capacity to live in harmony, and to destroy." - from the Foreword by Yann Martel