The Cat Who Covered The World: The Adventures Of Henrietta And Her Foreign Correspondent - Hardcover

Wren, Christopher S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684871009 ISBN 13: 9780684871004

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2000

Synopsis

A foreign correspondent recalls life with Henrietta, an ordinary family cat who accompanied him all over the world as he covered important events in Russia, China, South Africa, and Canada. 35,000 first printing.

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Review:

There are plenty of entertaining stories written about the public mishaps and accomplishments of dogs; they are social animals and can play highly public roles in everything from television sitcoms to real-life emergency situations. The cat, as feline admirers will not hesitate to agree, is more select in its level of tolerance for lowly humans, and thus few true stories are told that revolve around cats in public life. And then there's Henrietta.

Christopher Wren belonged to Henrietta the cat, and Christopher Wren travels far and wide in his work as a foreign news correspondent. Of course Henrietta insisted on being brought along to Moscow, Paris, Beijing, Tokyo, and all the other cities the Wrens visited. And of course Henrietta got into all sorts of scrapes--cats can cause enough trouble right in their own living rooms! The Cat Who Covered the World is a tremendously entertaining memoir and travelogue, covering 17 years in the life of a busy cat and her accommodating family. Wherever she went, she charmed, and tales of flight attendants bestowing free portions of salmon mousse and Italian taxi drivers blowing kisses into her cage while ignoring the traffic are intertwined with more typical cat stories of sudden escapes into fields, food stealing, and incessant yowling at inappropriate times. For this book, Wren sets aside his investigations and simply enjoys, culling quotes about cats from Mark Twain, Christopher Smart, Deng Xiaoping, and Herodotus for a bit of added depth. His conclusion about the cat/journalist relationship will have all feline fanciers smiling in agreement: "I have met enough celebrity journalists whose smug self-importance might have been ameliorated or corrected altogether by the ownership of a couple of cats." --Jill Lightner

About the Author:

Christopher S. Wren, a reporter for The New York Times, worked abroad for seventeen years as its bureau chief in Moscow, Cairo, Beijing, Ottawa, and Johannesburg. He began his career as a foreign correspondent by covering the Vietnam War for Look magazine, and has since reported on a half-dozen other conflicts, most recently in Bosnia. He won an Overseas Press Club Award and two citations of excellence for his reporting from Greece, Vietnam, and Soviet Central Asia. He is the author of five previous books and lives in New York with his wife and their cats.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0684871009
• ISBN 13: 9780684871004
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 208