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The Art of Creative Nonfiction

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My next online class is The Art of Creative Nonfiction. It starts January 13. It's a great way to get started for those who'd like to write memoirs, nature essays, travel stories, or other forms of nonfiction. You can take the class from anywhere you can get web access.

Spotted hyena attack

In Kenya, a mother and son were badly injured in a nighttime brawl with a predatory hyena. Another son and some neighbors received lesser injuries. The hospital employee interviewed for this newspaper account says he's seeing hyena victims approximately every month.

The attacker here was apparently a spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta), which is surpassed only by certain crocodilian and cat species as the major predator of humans in the world. One theory holds that people only arrived in North Ame...

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Deadly Kingdom
The Book of Dangerous Animals


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This unique survey of animal behavior by a naturalist and gifted literary stylist is a darkly funny, highly personal take on virtually every encounter with an animal that might pose bodily harm to humans.

Since he was six years old and a cougar wandered onto his family's farm, Gordon Grice has been obsessed with dangerous animals. Now, in a passionate, engaged voice all his own, Grice reaps a lifetime of amateur study in the for...