Though this is a story of survival, it is also a poignant and dramatic tale of living in the wilderness and coping with inevitable loss. But friends cannot always save each other from the uncontained forces of nature. Her scientific training had taught her not to anthropomorphise animals, but as she grew to know him, his personality revealed itself - and he became her friend. He became a regular visitor, eventually sitting near her as she read to him from The Little Prince or Dr Seuss. One day, she realised that a wild fox that had been appearing at her house was coming by every day precisely at 4.15. Except when teaching, she spoke to no one. She managed to put herself through college and then graduate school, eventually earning a PhD in biology and building a house on her remote plot. Drawn to the natural world, she worked as a ranger in national parks, at times living in her run-down car on abandoned construction sites, or camping on a piece of land in Montana she bought from a colleague. Catherine Raven left home at 15, fleeing an abusive father and an indifferent mother. A solitary woman's inspiring, moving, surprising, and often funny memoir about the transformative power of her unusual friendship with a wild fox.
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