Evocative and funny...Bruce speaks powerfully about the challenges to the health of animals and the environment

Inspired by John Steinbeck's journey across America with his poodle Charlie...the book is a delightful tale of a transatlantic adventure which will leave you with an urgent desire to hug any dogs you encounter

Fogle writes with a joyful ease and takes the reader right into the heart of the experience

Funny, feel-good travelogue

A marvellous book... This second part of the life stands on its own. Soothing, unhurried and absorbing

A fitting tribute to his career, as it combines, in both style and substance, the different themes of his life's work. Blending genuine literary talents with impeccable scientific credentials, Gould crafts an elegant entreaty for scientists and scholars to spend less time complaining about each other and more time combining their considerable resources. We need both the fox and the hedgehog in any intellectual menagerie - the persistent pluralist