Monster of God (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
At a glance:
- Author: David Quammen
- First Published: 2003
- Type of Work: Environment and natural history
- Time of Work: The 1990’s
- Setting: Western India, Romania, Australia, and the Russian Far East
- Principal Characters: Ravi Chellam, Jackie Adjarral, Ion Micu, Dmitri Pikunov
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Subjects: Dictators, Tigers, Twentieth century, Asia or Asians, India or East Indian people, 1990’s, Hunting or hunters, Bears, Endangered species, Russia or Russian people, Animals, Animals, dangerous, Lions, Australia or Australians, Wildlife, Biology or biologists, Crocodiles
- Locales: Australia, India, Romania
David Quammen announces his interests immediately:
What I’m asking you to contemplate are the psychological, mythic, and spiritual dimensions (as well as the ecological implications) of a particular sort of relationship: the predator-prey showdown between one dangerous, flesh-eating animal and one human victim. That relationship, I believe, has played a crucial role in shaping the way we humans construe our place in the natural world.
After a prelude in which he surveys some of the alpha predators, as he calls them, in world myth and literature, Quammen goes directly to...
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