Ranch of Dreams
by Cleveland Amory
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The author, founder of the Fund for Animals, tells stories of mistreated and unwanted animals he has rescued and given sanctuary at Black Beauty Ranch in East Texas, and discusses the early childhood influences that led to the development of his deep feelings for animal life.Tags
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Cleveland Amory started an animal sanctuary in Texas, the Black Beauty Ranch. They’ve had cats, burros, horses, chimpanzees (including Nim Chimpsky), elephants, foxes, prairie dogs, goats and probably others that aren’t coming to my head at this moment. This book tells how the sanctuary got started and many stories of the animals that have come to live there.
I really enjoyed this! It was very fast to read and there were separate chapters devoted to each species. He does also tell of some of the sad stories that led to the various critters coming to live there.
I really enjoyed this! It was very fast to read and there were separate chapters devoted to each species. He does also tell of some of the sad stories that led to the various critters coming to live there.
This is an enjoyable and inspirational story of people practicing what they preach. I liked hearing the tales of the individual animals and learned some things about animal cruelty. Amory had a big heart.
A good read about a man's dream.
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Cleveland Amory is a humorist and humanitarian especially known for his books about animals and his animal advocacy. Amory was born in 1917 into a prominent New England family. Amory attended Harvard where he was president of the Harvard Crimson. Upon graduation, Amory became the youngest editor ever of The Saturday Evening Post. He served in Army show more Intelligence in World War II and soon after the war wrote a trilogy of social history studies, including The Proper Bostonians, which is still in print 50 years later. He also wrote The Last Resorts and Who Killed Society? Amory was social commentator of the Today Show and chief critic of the TV Guide from 1963 to 1976. He wrote a weekly column for the Saturday Review and delivered a daily radio essay titled Curmudgeon at Large. Amory became senior contributing editor of Parade magazine in 1980. In 1974 he wrote Man Kind? Our Incredible War on Wildlife, one of a few books ever to be awarded an editorial in The New York Times. This book inspired The Guns of Autumn, a CBS documentary on hunting. His books on cats include The Cat Who Came for Christmas, The Cat and the Curmudgeon, and The Best Cat Ever. In 1996 an anthology, Cat Tales: Classic Stories from Favorite Writers, joined his other cat books. Ranch of Dreams, published in 1997, tells the story of Black Beauty Ranch, a sanctuary and shelter for animals developed in East Texas by the Fund for Animals, which Amory founded in 1967. Amory lives in New York. He visits Black Beauty Ranch often and continues to be active on behalf of animals. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Dedication
- This book is dedicated to all those whose hearts burn, as does that of the author, with a deep and abiding hatred of cruelty to animals.
- First words
- Animals have been special to me for as long as I can remember.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)With me, however (and just between us), I would not bet on it.
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