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"Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written."
- Yevgeny Zamyatin
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| | The King of the Ferret Leggers and Other True Stories
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| | by Donald R. Katz
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ZIN Product Number: 10306604
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 224 pages
Edition: 1 ED
Publisher: Random House, Incorporated
ISBN: 0812991524
Release Date: Jan 5, 1994
| |  | | | In Brief
Each of these stories conveys a sense of the strangeness, wonder, and oddity of life-a theme that provides a gravitational center to this multifarious selection drawn from twenty years of an award-winning non-fiction story-teller's body of work.
| | | | From The Publisher
For 25 years, Donald Katz has been one of the most highly regarded magazine journalists at work, nominated for four National Magazine Awards and winner of an Overseas Press Club Award for best interpretation of foreign affairs. The King of the Ferret Leggers and Other Stories covers Katz's best work across an impressive range of subjects -- business, technology, adventure, culture, and international conflict.
Katz's opening story and the title piece of the book offers a hilarious yet appropriately reverential look at 72-year old Reg Mellor, unparalleled "ferret legging" champion of Yorkshire and the world. Other characters who populate this book include fitness guru Jack LaLanne, legendary entrepreneur Paul Hawken, and master political cartoonist and inspired troublemaker Bill Mauldin.
While this collection contains portraits that are varied in scene and tone, their depictions of obsession, delusion, perseverance, creativity, and good-heartedness-the list could go on and on-remain a constant. Each of these stories conveys a sense of the strangeness, wonder, and oddity of life-a theme that provides a gravitational center to this multifarious selection drawn from twenty years of an award-winning non-fiction story-teller's body of work.
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| | | |  | | | Accreditation
Donald Katz is the author of Home Fires, which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, The Big Store: Inside the Crisis and Revolution at Sears, winner of the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Nonfiction, and Just Do It: The Nike Spirit in the Corporate World. He has served as a contributing editor for Rolling Stone, Esquire, Outside, Sports Illustrated, Men's Journal, and Worth, and his work has won and been nominated for several National Magazine Awards. Katz is the founder of Audible, Inc. the leading Internet provider of spoken-word audio.
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