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Books published by publisher Pantheon Books, New York

  • Mrs. Pepperpot's Outing,

    Alf Prøysen, Bjorn Berg

    Hardcover (Pantheon Books, March 15, 1971)
    Each time Mrs. Pepperpot shrinks she encounters an animal that becomes a pet when she returns to normal size.
  • Born Free, A Lioness of Two Worlds

    Joy Adamson

    Hardcover (Pantheon Books, March 15, 1960)
    Dust jacket notes: "Out of Africa comes the story of the most remarkable association between man and wild beast ever told. Joy Adamson is the wife of a game warden in Kenya. One day her husband was called out to deal with a man-eating lion. While stalking the lion he was suddenly charged by a lioness whom he had to shoot in self-defense. In the crevice of some nearby rocks he found three cubs. They decided to rear one of them as a pet. This is by no means the first case of a lion cub being reared by Europeans. But in all previous instances, the foster parents eventually had to face up to the problem of how to dispose of a fully grown lion; they had to choose between the two alternatives, consigning it to a zoo or giving it a freedom which it was unfit to enjoy or even survive. The Adamson's foresaw this dilemma and worked out a solution. They deliberately set about training their lioness, Elsa, to kill and fend for herself. They succeeded in turning her back into the fierce wild animal nature had intended her to be. At the same time they preserved undiminished the bond of confidence and affection which they had established with her as a pet. Today the lioness lives the proud life of the king of beasts. She has found a mate and had produced a litter of cubs. Her foster parents visit her at regular intervals. On arrival in her area they fire a few shots in the air and wait for her to come bounding out of the bush. She is always touchingly glad to see them and gives them a boisterous welcome. Hers is a unique story-of a lion who has bridged the gulf between two worlds, that of the jungle and of man, to enjoy the freedom of both. Never before has the life history of a wild animal been so intimately recorded over such a long period or been documented at every stage by such a remarkable collection of photographs, numbering in the thousands, of which over one hundred are reproduced in the book."
  • Its Wings That Make Birds Fly

    Sandra Weiner

    Hardcover (PANTHEON BOOKS @, March 15, 1968)
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  • The One Pig with Horns

    Laurent de Brunhoff, Richard Howard

    Hardcover (Pantheon Books, March 15, 1979)
    Every time Pig gets angry he literally loses his head and has quite a time recovering it.
  • Wild Blue Yonder: Money, Politics, and the B-1 Bomber

    Nick Kotz

    Hardcover (Pantheon Books, Jan. 12, 1988)
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  • Nadia the Willful

    Sue Alexander, Lloyd Bloom

    Hardcover (Pantheon Books, May 12, 1983)
    When her favorite brother disappears in the desert forever, Nadia refuses to let him be forgotten, despite her father's bitter decree that his name shall not be uttered.
  • Ananse the spider;: Tales from an Ashanti village

    Peggy Appiah

    Hardcover (Pantheon Books, March 15, 1966)
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  • The Story of Elsa

    Joy Adamson

    (New York: Pantheon Books, Jan. 1, 1966)
    The story of Elsa the Lioness and her rehabilitation and reintroduction into the African wilderness after she was found as an orphaned cub.
  • Doctor Rabbit's foundling

    Jan Wahl

    Hardcover (Pantheon Books, March 15, 1977)
    The darling of the entire forest neighborhood, Tiny, grows from tadpole to toad through Doctor Rabbit's loving care.
  • Russian Fairy Tales

    Alexander Nikolayevi Afanasyev

    Paperback (Pantheon Books, Jan. 1, 1994)
    1975, Paperback, 662 pages
  • Seeker of Seaways: A Life of Matthew Fontaine Maury, Pioneer Oceanographer

    Janice J. Beaty, Joseph Cellini

    Hardcover (Pantheon Books, March 15, 1966)
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  • Are You Pirates?

    Steven Kroll, Marylin Hafner

    Hardcover (Pantheon Books, )
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