Author:Bruce Fogle
After a thirty-year career as a high profile vet, columnist, presenter and author Bruce Fogle - the UK's bestselling cat & dog writer - decided to leave urban Britain and take a journey with his dog Macy. Travelling in the footsteps of the great American novelist John Steinbeck, who published Travels with Charley - his standard poodle - in the '60s, Fogle set off in search of the North America of his childhood. Would he, after all this time, be able to work out whether home meant the UK or America? Would he find the welcoming, peaceful backwaters of his youth unchanged?
Together with Macy, Fogle retraced Steinbeck's steps through the length of North America, meeting people, cadging meals, and indulging in some of the world's best dog-walking territory. What Bruce found in a changing America surprised and delighted him. What Macy found (thousands of miles of unspoilt wilderness) made her very happy. And hungry. An entertaining and evocative journey in the company of a very, very happy dog.
Evocative and funny...Bruce speaks powerfully about the challenges to the health of animals and the environment
—— Your DogInspired 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
—— Lincolnshire EchoFogle writes with a joyful ease and takes the reader right into the heart of the experience
—— Good TimesFunny, feel-good travelogue
—— Woman and HomeA marvellous book... This second part of the life stands on its own. Soothing, unhurried and absorbing
—— Jane Ridley , SpectatorA 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
—— Alan C. Hutchinson , Globe and Mail