Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, Author, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, Read by , read by the author. Tantor Audio $34.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4001-0307-2
When Thomas was 19, her father, one of the founders of Raytheon, moved her family to Africa to live among the bushmen of the Kalahari. It's hard to imagine a teenager today who would not only give up the comforts of living in an industrialized...
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Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, Author . Crichton/FSG $25 (343p) ISBN 978-0-374-22552-0
In 1950, Thomas (The Hidden Life of Dogs
), at 19, joined her civil engineer father, her ballerina mother (who would become a celebrated anthropologist) and her brother on a life-changing expedition into southwest Africa's Kalahari Desert to...
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Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, Author Simon & Schuster $19.5 (240p) ISBN 978-0-671-79965-6
This latest animal book from the author of The Hidden Life of Dogs will have ailurophiles purring. If she were a captive tiger, Thomas tells us that she'd prefer to be in a circus rather than a zoo--the big top is more stimulating. She compares the...
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Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, Author Simon & Schuster $15 (128p) ISBN 978-0-684-83313-2
Marshall applies her knowledge of the animal world (The Secret Life of Dogs) and her fictional skills (Reindeer Moon) to a rich reimagining of the Nativity story. Her pilgrims are a wise goat named Ima and a huge warrior sheepdog , Lila. They are on
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Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, Author Simon & Schuster $24 (256p) ISBN 978-0-684-81026-3
As she proved in her bestselling The Hidden Life of Dogs, no one writes with greater emotional intelligence about man's (and woman's) best friend than Thomas. Like that marvelous book, this worthy sequel reports on the canines in the author's life,...
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Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $17.95 (338p) ISBN 978-0-395-42112-3
Those familiar with the author's landmark study, The Harmless People, will not be surprised at the range of anthropological information she brings to her first novel, or at the lucidity of her prose. What will astonish, engross and move readers in...
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Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $19.95 (289p) ISBN 978-0-395-52453-4
Light years separate Thomas's intelligent, literate fiction from most other novels set in prehistoric times. Exuding authenticity and distinguished by resonant language, this novel, a companion to Reindeer Moon , is likewise set in the savannastet...
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Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, Author Pocket Books $12 (240p) ISBN 978-0-684-80454-5
Anthropologist Thomas's (The Hidden Life of Dogs) probing of the minds and souls of felines, small and domestic as well as big and feral, spent six weeks on PW's bestseller list. (Sept.)
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Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, Author, Jeanette Ed. Thomas, Author Pocket Books $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-73323-0
Kori, a member of a Paleolithic hunter-gatherer people on the Siberian savanna, captures a woman from a neighboring tribe and finds himself at odds with her radically different language and customs. ``Light years separate Thomas's intelligent,...
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Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, Author, Bill Grose, Editor Pocket Books $6.5 (176p) ISBN 978-0-671-51699-4
Thomas's multifaceted discussion of canine life was a 28-week PW bestseller. (Mar.)
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Elizabeth Marshall Thomas. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $25 (304p) ISBN 978-0-547-76395-8
This memoir by naturalist Thomas (The Hidden Life of Dogs) is at once lofty and personal, mundane and impressive. What ultimately holds the book together are her powers of observation and particular experiences: extensive travels; encounters with...
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Elizabeth Marshall Thomas. HarperOne, $24.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-06-295643-9
Octogenarian Thomas (The Hidden Life of Dogs) tackles old age in this clever and astute memoir. From her home in rural New Hampshire, the widowed great-grandmother looks back upon her life and offers advice for readers approaching old age—“a venture
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