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. It is both a timely tale of solitude and belonging as well as a timeless story of one woman whose immersion in the natural world will change the way we view our surroundingsâ each tree, weed, flower, stone, or fox.A solitary woman's inspiring, moving, surprising, and often funny memoir about the transformative power of her unusual friendship with a wild fox.Ĭatherine Raven left home at 15, fleeing an abusive father and an indifferent mother. Fox and I is a poignant and remarkable tale of friendship, growth, and coping with inevitable lossâ and of how that loss can be transformed into meaning. Friends, however, cannot save each other from the uncontained forces of nature. From the fox, Catherine learned the single most important thing about loneliness: we are never alone when we are connected to the natural world. Her scientific training had taught her not to anthropomorphize animals, yet as she grew to know him, his personality revealed itself and they became friends.
How do you even talk to a fox? She brought out her camping chair, sat as close to him as she dared, and began reading to him from The Little Prince. She had never had a regular visitor before. Then one day she realized that a mangy-looking fox was showing up on her property every afternoon at 4:15 p.m. In the meantime, she taught remotely and led field classes in nearby Yellowstone National Park. 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. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Text is bright and free of marks or underlining. A clean crisp well preserved 2021 Spiegel & Grau hardcover in a fine tight binding.
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