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About Stefan Bechtel
See more books from this AuthorMany of the passages about conservation are repetitive, and Bechtel’s tone varies as he clearly struggles with his admiration for Hornaday’s efforts to preserve wildlife and his misgivings about the hunting of animals for display.
Read Full Review of Mr. Hornaday's War: How a Pe... | See more reviews from KirkusThis brief, entertaining biography...offers a lively treatment of a singular life.
Read Full Review of Mr. Hornaday's War: How a Pe... | See more reviews from Publishers WeeklyStefan Bechtel brings the man and his contradictions to the twenty-first century in a timely biography of a man that should be celebrated, as opposed to being a footnote in animal conservation history.
Read Full Review of Mr. Hornaday's War: How a Pe...Bechtel...rightly admires not just Hornaday’s immense energy but his ethics, his uphill crusade to instill a sense of moral responsibility into the American attitude toward wild animals...
Read Full Review of Mr. Hornaday's War: How a Pe...Bechtel doesn’t present Hornaday as a saint. But a full accounting of this complex man probably deserves a little deeper probing into events that seem to dirty Hornaday’s otherwise fairly white hat — like his inability to understand the hullabaloo over his short-term display of a homeless pygmy in his zoo’s monkey house.
Read Full Review of Mr. Hornaday's War: How a Pe...Although this is not a massive biography (219 pages), it is not possible to do it justice in a review. For anyone who has any interest in wildlife, “Mr. Hornaday's War” is essential reading.
Read Full Review of Mr. Hornaday's War: How a Pe...Bechtel is a good, if breathless, storyteller, and he does not whitewash Hornaday’s elitism. But he also does not have the sensibilities of a historian—he invents dialogue and is not quite up-to-date on the bison story at the heart of this book.
Read Full Review of Mr. Hornaday's War: How a Pe...I was not able to finish this book... I found that it plodded along very slowly.
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