From the dawn of consciousness we have looked to the stars, wondering are we alone? Are there others like us somewhere? Now finally, we're finding that they've been right here all along, the very animals with ourselves; the ones who keep trying to remind us that we, in fact, were never alone. 

ABOUT CHARLES SIEBERT

Charles Siebert is the author of three critically acclaimed memoirs, The Wauchula Woods Accord: Toward A New Understanding of Animals, A Man After His Own Heart, and Wickerby: An Urban Pastoral, a New York Times Notable Book of 1998, as well as a novel, Angus; and The Secret World of Whales, a children’s book about whales. A poet, journalist, essayist, and contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, he has written for The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, Vanity Fair, Esquire, Outside, Men’s Journal, and National Geographic.