Gregory McNamee is a writer, journalist, editor, photographer, and consultant in publishing, film, and other media. He is the author or title-page editor of 30 books and more than 3,000 articles, essays, reviews, interviews, editorials, poems, and short stories. He is a consultant, contributor, and contributing editor to the Encyclopaedia Britannica and its blog, as well as a regular reviewer for Kirkus Reviews, a contributing editor to the Bloomsbury Review, and a correspondent for TravelIntelligence.net. He is a research associate at the Southwest Center of the University of Arizona. He lives in Tucson.
"A fascinating caricature of our tendency to imbue the minds of others, be they animal or human, with the characteristics, qualities, and motives of our own."-- Brain Pickings "'If Aelian's science is sometimes sketchy, the facts often fanciful, and the history sometimes suspect, ' McNamee writes, 'it is clear enough that he had a grand time assembling the material.' And so does McNamee. As he points out, 'The Nature of Animals' is 'mostly randomly ordered, ' but its often comic trifles make pleasant bedside reading." -- Washington Post "With more obscure tales than you can shake a paw at, this is the book for anyone who has ever wondered about the weird world of wildlife."-- New Scientist "If you know even a little bit about the natural world, you'll find Aelian's On the Nature of Animals quite ridiculous." -- Utne Reader "Aelian's tales are delectable, satisfying reads because of their larger perspective, the encompassing vision of humans and animals and science and nature as part and parcel of the same character."-- The Believer Magazine
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