Daniel P Mannix: 21 books

"I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folk are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed."             ―The Scarecrow of Oz, from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank...

A humorous and vastly illuminating autobiographical account of the incredible life of Daniel P Mannix—from the beginning—how his love of animals began and grew into a life-long passion. With an eye for the absurd, impeccable timing, and exceptional attention to detail, the author whisks you through...

   Daniel Pratt Mannix 3rd was the quintessential man of his time and the manner in which he lived his life mirrored the strengths and weaknesses of his age.        At four, he spoke Mandarin Chinese better than he did English. When he went out to play he wore...

    Daniel P. Mannix's father and grandfather were distinguished navel officers who expected Daniel to keep up the family tradition. Daniel tried, he really did, but when all those attempting to mold him into a respectable cadet eventually gave up, well, what else can a navel academy...

Family enthusiasm for Daniel's back-yard zoo is wearing thin. When a  great horned owl is captured and offered as a donation, Daniel's father replies (with more than a little mockery), "That's the last straw! All we have in this madhouse now is fourteen skunks, four raccoons, a dozen opossums,...

 In a novel that memorably evokes a rural American countryside and its wildlife, Daniel P Mannix leads us into the magical existence of a boy groping toward maturity in a primitive but exciting environment. The story unfolds among the woods and farms of the Pennsylvania Dutch country, where the...

Even if readers don't speak a word of cluck, bird enthusiasts and animal lovers are bound to be captivated by Whitehackle, a fighting rooster, and Ishmael, a female Cooper's hawk turned chicken thief, as they embark on a life-long duel for dominance. Daniel P Mannix dramatizes the story by filling...

From the quarter deck of an English steam frigate two bodies are sited, yoked together by a great stick, as they slid down the smooth side of a towering swell.  The bodies are those of an old man and a woman, possibly jettisoned cargo from a suspected slave ship, dumped into the sea to avoid...

     Beneath the surface of a river, stream or pond lies a strange and dramatic world of living things, a world of unearthly beauty and marvelous complexity that to most of us is unknown. In Troubled Waters one of America's most popular nature writers transports us into this realm of...

Daniel Pratt Mannix raised and studied wild animals at his grandparents' Pennsylvania farm since the time he was a boy of six.  The animals were ideal companions and, in order to support his zoo, Daniel wrote stories about them for magazines which were eventually compiled into a book. The Backyard...

Male bald eagles are smaller than their sisters and must struggle from the beginning to survive.  Because size matters in the eagle world, baby boy eagles have to be smarter and more agile than their big sisters who snap up the choicest tidbits and may even eat bothersome siblings if provoked....

During five centuries of popularity, the Roman games, or ludi, started out as celebrations no more heinous than the average neighborhood carnival and grew into a spectacles of pointless massacre that slaughtered thousands of people and animals every month.  The games were so popular that they...

Brilliant, amusing, and utterly immoral, young noblemen, politicians, artists and other eminent men of eighteenth century England thronged to the abbey of Medmenham and the elaborately decorated caves and gardens of West Wycombe Park to attend meetings of a club that outraged and threatened the security...

“The guilt rests on humanity itself. . . on the apparently inexhaustible capacity for greed and numbness of heart and the infliction of suffering that survives in the nature of man.”  ~Malcolm Cowley   Africans were brought to North and South America as the result of...