![]() ![]() Rich and meditative, Raven’s musings on nature and solitude are delightful company. Along with reverently describing her furry friend-who had a “face so innocent that you would have concluded that he never stalked a bluebird, let alone dismembered one”-Raven writes poetically about the flora (“my sun-worshipping tenants”) and fauna around her. A wild fox befriends a solitary woman at her home in Montana, and their relationship transforms them both in this inspiring, surprising, and often funny memoir. I had been jogging when I realised that he would live only a few years in this harsh country. each afternoon left me no choice but to read.” For “fifteen consecutive days,” she read Antoine Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince to the fox, and the two formed an unusual bond, spending days together hiking through the forest and carrying on imagined conversations. Fox & I by Catherine Raven 3,306 ratings, 3.71 average rating, 655 reviews Open Preview Fox & I Quotes Showing 1-6 of 6 A double rainbow had changed the course of my relationship with the fox. And so, she writes, “the necessity of entertaining a visitor at 4:15 p.m. ![]() Around this time, a red fox began appearing near her cottage at the same time every afternoon. Upon graduating, she bought herself a remote parcel of land in Montana and landed a gig teaching classes for the University of Montana Western in Yellowstone National Park. After fleeing the abusive household she grew up in, Raven started college at age 16 and worked as a park ranger in Washington’s Mount Rainier National Park before earning her doctorate in biology in 1999. ![]() Biologist Raven ( Forestry) reflects on her relationship with a red fox in her offbeat and charming memoir. ![]()
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