{"title":"Daniel P. Mannix","description":"Daniel P. Mannix was an award-winning American author and journalist, as well as a magician and filmmaker. Mannix's magazine articles about his experiences in the carnival, where he performed under the stage name \"The Great Zadma,\" became popular in the mid-1940s and were compiled with the assistance of his wife in the book Step Right Up! His dozens of books and extensive essays range in subject from children's animal stories, environmental issues, and hunting accounts to historical examinations of the Hellfire Club, the Atlantic slave trade, and the Roman gladiatorial games. Mannix was particularly interested in the Wizard of Oz canon and composed a biography of L. Frank Baum for American Heritage magazine in the 1960s.","products":[{"product_id":"the-wolves-of-paris-paperback","title":"The Wolves of Paris - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Way of the Gladiator\u003c\/i\u003e brings to life medieval Paris and the wolves who held it hostage, in a novel based on real events. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Praised as \"nature writing at its best,\" \u003ci\u003eThe Wolves of Paris\u003c\/i\u003e takes readers to fifteenth-century France, a country so decimated by the Hundred Years' War that its people became prey for marauding wolf packs (\u003ci\u003eHartford Courant\u003c\/i\u003e). With France split among the English, the Burgundians, and the forces of the weak Charles VII, a wolf-dog rises to ensure the existence of his pack by any means necessary . . . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Courtaud begins his life as the possession of a count until an attack on the castle leaves him to fend for himself. To survive, the huge, russet-colored beast ingratiates himself into a pack of wolves he will soon lead, with his mate, Silver, at his side. Without the wild wolf's innate fear of man--and driven to starvation by vicious winters--Courtaud turns his pack to hunting livestock on its way to Paris. Battles and the plague leave corpses in their path, stoking the wolves' lust for human flesh. Soon, Courtaud's howl alone will strike fear into the hearts of Parisians, prompting a king to put a price on his head--and history to remember his name. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Daniel Mannix gets right inside any animal skin. . . . His hero Courtaud is the most feared and celebrated of all wolves, and this story of his life and times, based on medieval archives, should add to the fistful of awards already garnered by Mannix. . . . It will haunt almost anyone.\" --\u003ci\u003eSt. Louis Post-Dispatch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50102821650655,"sku":"9798337200385","price":23.02,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/5uQk28W7LM9798337200385.webp?v=1781087419"},{"product_id":"the-fox-and-the-hound-paperback","title":"The Fox and the Hound - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis classic, award-winning novel and the basis for the animated Disney movie is \"a masterpiece, it is tops in the field of animal books\" (\u003ci\u003eOmaha World-Herald\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Dutton Animal Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Athenaeum Literary Award\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eReader's Digest\u003c\/i\u003e Book Club \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Two animals on opposites sides of the hunt--one a loyal, domesticated companion, the other a wily, solitary trickster. Copper is a large bloodhound mix, prized for his scenting ability. He longs for the thrill of the chase and for his human's praise. Yet he could lose his place in the pack to any of the younger, faster dogs around him . . . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Tod the fox is familiar with the ways of men and hounds; he had been raised by and lived among them as a pup--but not for long. Instinct drives him back into the wilderness, where he learns to spring the traps set for him, catch the attention of vixens, and survive the seasons. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the natural order of things, Copper and Tod are enemies, but it's the changing world around them that could prove to be the greatest threat of all . . . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"No one who has the slightest interest in animals should miss reading \u003ci\u003eThe Fox and the Hound\u003c\/i\u003e.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Plain Dealer\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A lively and engrossing animal book . . . a really exciting story.\" --Associated Press \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A story of a hunt told in a way it seldom is, completely from the viewpoint of the animals. . . . 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