Blurb by Robert (Bob) Michael Pyle

Last summer, I had the good fortune of meeting and having dinner with someone I'd read and admired for years, the author, Robert (Bob) Micheal Pyle. I've never met a gentler, kinder soul, and I'm afraid I took advantage of his kindness by asking him to blurb WDS, thinking (hoping) it might be something he'd enjoy. I wasn't expecting such a glowing endorsement and I am truly honored. Thank you Bob.

I don't know when I have felt more captive to a suite of animal associations than I do in reading Wild Delicate Seconds.   I think of Ernest Thompson Seton, both Adolf and Olaus Murie, and all of the Craigheads, written with the elegant concision of Penelope Fitzgerald and the wild whimsy of Tom Robbins.  But this is Charles Finn, all by himself, except for the company of 29 memorable creatures--all the more memorable for his gem-like accounts of intimate meetings in the wild.  Finn's mastery of simile, his deep, deep attention to others around him, and his humility in the presence of his evolutionary peers make this a fine book, one I shall read over and over, give away again and again, and return to when I am lonely.

Robert Michael Pyle,  author of Mariposa Road and The Thunder Tree