Book: A Slender Thread by Diane Ackerman

Hardcover, 1997. Excellent used condition. No marks, no tears, one tiny dog-ear. Some rippling on the dust cover (see pics) but the spine in great shape and there are no missing pages. "Diane Ackermann volunteers every week at a local crisis center, where people call in anonymously, strung out, desperate, imploring, or hostile, holding on to hope through a phone line. Her secret life spent with callers is shocking, funny, stressful, healing, and inspiring. So, too, is her life in her backyard where the wild creatures she observes so closely are living their own lives on the edge. In her distinctive style she weaves these parallel threads into a book that is an astonishment. Using powerful stories of the human spirit set against a backdrop of the natural world she knows so well, Ackerman takes us with her on her travels between those intensely fascinating realms."