Carol Bradley
Autore di Saving Gracie: How One Dog Escaped the Shadowy World of American Puppy Mills
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Carol Bradley is a former newspaper reporter who studied Animal Law as a 2004 Nieman Fellow at Harvard. She spent twenty-six years covering the U.S. Congress and state legislatures in Tennessee and New York and writing features and investigative stories in Montana.
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Last Chain On Billie: How One Extraordinary Elephant… di Carol Bradley
This is as much a history of elephants performing in circuses as it is about this particular elephant so the title is a bit a misleading. Bradley's behind-the-scenes look at the life of circus and zoo elephants exposes the cruel world that all circus and zoo elephants endure in order to learn the unnatural tricks that entertain the public. Bradley is unflinching in her disturbing, sometimes horrific, descriptions of the history and evolution of the performing elephant world, where brutality by human trainers, inhumane living conditions and isolation force elephants into submission. Billie's fate is a rare happy one, as she is one of the circus elephants who ends up in the Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee. Bradley does a great job explaining the important work of this center devoted to rehabilitation and giving as comfortable and natural a life as possible to these rescued elephants.… (altro)
Escape from the circus
Billie, an Asian elephant captured as a baby and trained for the circus, serves as the focal point for Carol Bradley's history of animals in American circuses. Last Chain on Billie: How One Extraordinary Elephant Escaped the Big Top (St. Martin's Press, $25.99) follows Billie from capture to her eventual release to The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee—hence the “last chain” of the title. It's a thorough examination of the mistreatment of animals captured, trained and exhibited for the entertainment of humans. Exhaustively footnoted, Bradley details cruel training practices and the ethical questions around using animals this way. While Billie is the exemplar of these practices, the book's mission is to inform and outrage, and it is extremely effective at that.
Reviewed for the Sacramento News & Review: http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/escape-from-the-circus/content?oid=14279239… (altro)
Billie, an Asian elephant captured as a baby and trained for the circus, serves as the focal point for Carol Bradley's history of animals in American circuses. Last Chain on Billie: How One Extraordinary Elephant Escaped the Big Top (St. Martin's Press, $25.99) follows Billie from capture to her eventual release to The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee—hence the “last chain” of the title. It's a thorough examination of the mistreatment of animals captured, trained and exhibited for the entertainment of humans. Exhaustively footnoted, Bradley details cruel training practices and the ethical questions around using animals this way. While Billie is the exemplar of these practices, the book's mission is to inform and outrage, and it is extremely effective at that.
Reviewed for the Sacramento News & Review: http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/escape-from-the-circus/content?oid=14279239… (altro)
A good look at the puppy mill industry and the fight to find a way to regulate them and reduce the demand for pure breed dogs which keeps this industry thriving. A candid look at the lives of these dogs and how loving adopters find a way to give their dogs a better life.
I read through this book and even though I am familiar with the subject matter the style in which it was written was not my favorite.
It was presented in a more ' court room drama for TV' style That is not to say the subject matter was not well written and informative and yes heartbreaking. This book is a good read if you like a more straight forward 'just the facts' type book, no frills.
It was presented in a more ' court room drama for TV' style That is not to say the subject matter was not well written and informative and yes heartbreaking. This book is a good read if you like a more straight forward 'just the facts' type book, no frills.
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