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Rasskazy o zhivotnyh

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V etoj zamechatelnoj knizhke sobrany luchshie rasskazy kanadskogo pisatelja i khudozhnika E.Setona-Tompsona o "Ulichnyj Pevets", "Chink", "Dzhek - Boevoj Konek", "Korolevskaja Analostanka" i drugie, v prekrasnom perevode N.Chukovskogo. Illjustratsii V.Bastrykina garmonichno dopolnjajut tekst. V proizvedenijakh E.Setona-Tompsona priroda raskryvaetsja v svoej pervozdannoj krasote, a zhivotnye nadeleny kharakterom i individualnostju. Rasskazy etogo avtora uchat dobru, spravedlivosti i vnimatelnomu, berezhnomu otnosheniju k tem, kto rjadom s nami.

144 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2017

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Ernest Thompson Seton

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Ernest Thompson Seton was a Scots-Canadian (and naturalized U.S. citizen) who became a noted author, wildlife artist, founder of the Woodcraft Indians, and one of the founding pioneers of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA). Seton also heavily influenced Lord Baden-Powell, the founder of Scouting. His notable books related to Scouting include The Birch Bark Roll and The Boy Scout Handbook. He is responsible for the strong influence of American Indian culture in the BSA.

He was born Ernest Evan Thompson in South Shields, County Durham (now part of South Tyneside, Tyne and Wear), England of Scottish parents and his family emigrated to Canada in 1866. As a youth, he retreated to the woods to draw and study animals as a way of avoiding his abusive father. He won a scholarship in art to the Royal Academy in London, England.

He later rejected his father and changed his name to Ernest Thompson Seton. He believed that Seton had been an important name in his paternal line. He developed a fascination with wolves while working as a naturalist for Manitoba. He became successful as a writer, artist and naturalist, and moved to New York City to further his career. Seton later lived at Wyndygoul, an estate that he built in Cos Cob, a section of Greenwich, Connecticut. After experiencing vandalism by the local youth, Seton invited them to his estate for a weekend where he told stories of the American Indians and of nature.

He formed the Woodcraft Indians in 1902 and invited the local youth to join. The stories became a series of articles written for the Ladies Home Journal and were eventually collected in the The Birch Bark Roll of the Woodcraft Indians in 1906.

He was married twice. The first marriage was to Grace Gallatin in 1896. Their only daughter, Ann, was born in 1904 and died in 1990. Ann, who later changed her first name, became a best-selling author of historical and biographical novels as Anya Seton. According to her introduction to the novel Green Darkness, both of her parents were practicing Theosophists. Ernest and Grace divorced in 1935, and Ernest soon married Julia M. Buttree. Julia would write works by herself and with Ernest. They did not have any children, but did adopt an infant daughter, Beulah (Dee) Seton (later Dee Seton Barber), in 1938. Dee Seton Barber died in 2006.



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