His silent prayer to the Great Spirit was ended as a golden beam shot from a long low cloud-bank over the sea and Quonab sang a weird Indian song for the rising sun an invocation to the Day God… (Excerpt)...

An immediate success upon its first publication in 1898, Wild Animals I Have Known gave the animal story new credibility and power as a literary genre and remains Seton’s best-loved work.


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