This book has emerged out of our responses to donkeys: donkeys as a species and donkeys as individuals. The book grazes, feeding on a landscape both real and historical, imagined, desired and underfoot, inspired by a creature that has, strangely, embedded itself into the very fabric of philosophy, religion, art, the environment, human history, as well as in our hearts. Donkeys did not bray for this attention, but their own subtle beauty and gentleness has attracted our kind, while their "utility" has brought them loads of woe.
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