1st Edition
Blogging Wildlife The Perception of Animals by Hikers on the Appalachian Trail
By Kate Marx
Copyright 2021
178 Pages
by
Routledge
178 Pages
by
Routledge
178 Pages
by
Routledge
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This volume reports on the encounters between hikers and wildlife on the Appalachian Trail. Based on narratives provided by trail hikers, it explores the ways in which humans relate to the animals with whom they temporarily share a home. With attention to the themes of pilgrimage, the changing perception of the animals encountered and reactions to them, risk, auditory experience, and a sense of... Read more
Introduction
1. Hiking as Pilgrimage, and Wild Animals on the Trail
2. 'Real' Wilderness Needs a 'Real' Predator: Hikers and Black Bears
3. Cuteness on the Trail
4. Ugly, Scary, and Disgusting: Uncomfortably Close Encounters with Mice, Snakes, Insects, and Other ‘Critters’ on the Trail
5. Chirps, Quacks, Croaks, Howls, and 'What Was That?': Animal Sounds on the Trail
Conclusion
Biography
Kate Marx was a postdoctoral research associate in the research group Exeter Anthrozoology as Symbiotic Ethics (EASE) at the University of Exeter, UK. She is currently Social Research Manager at Waterwise, a not-for-profit organisation which advocates for water conservation in the UK.
