She was as emotionally isolated as she was physically, but she viewed the house as a way station, a temporary rest stop where she could gather her nerves and fill out applications for what she hoped would be a real job that would help her fit into society. When Catherine Raven finished her PhD in biology, she built herself a tiny cottage on an isolated plot of land in Montana.
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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 anthropomorphize animals, but as she grew to know him, his personality revealed itself-and he became her friend. He became a regular visitor, who eventually sat near her as she read to him from The Little Prince or Dr. One day, she realized that the fox who had been appearing at her house was coming by every day at 4:15. Yet she never felt at home with people, and though she worked at various universities and taught field classes in the National Parks, she built a house on a remote plot of land in Montana and, except when teaching, spoke to no one. She managed to put herself through college and then graduate school, eventually earning a Ph.D. Drawn to the natural world, for years she worked as a ranger in National Parks, at times living in her run-down car (which lacked a reverse gear), on abandoned construction sites, or camping on a piece of land in Montana she bought from a colleague. Enter to win Catherine Raven's unforgettable memoir Fox & I: An Uncommon Friendship about the bond between a solitary woman and a wild fox.moreĪ solitary woman’s inspiring, moving, surprising, and often funny memoir about the transformative power of her unusual friendship with a wild fox, a n A solitary woman’s inspiring, moving, surprising, and often funny memoir about the transformative power of her unusual friendship with a wild fox, a new window onto the natural world, and the introduction of a remarkable literary talent.Ĭatherine Raven left home at 15, fleeing an abusive father and an indifferent mother.
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