Volume 41, Number 18 · November 3, 1994
CATS
By Desmond Morris
The Tribe of Tiger: Cats and Their Culture
by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, illustrated by Jared Taylor Williams
Simon and Schuster, 240 pp., $20.00
When you have had an unexpected success with a book about dogs, what do you do for an encore? In Hollywood, the answer would inevitably have been Dogs 2, but when it comes to books, there is a different strategy: switch to cats. This has been a popular move ever since Victorian times, and it is no surprise, therefore, to find Elizabeth Marshall Thomas following her Hidden Life of Dogs with The Tribe of Tiger. But can one person be equally passionate about both dogs and cats?
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