Companions in Conflict: Animals in Occupied Palestine , by Penny Johnson. New York: Melville House, 2019. 256 pages. $26.99 cloth, $12.99 e-book. “I explore the histories and intertwined fates of some of the large mammals that live in this fractured land” (p. ix), author Penny Johnson tells us in the second paragraph of Companions in Conflict , and in eight chapters she takes the reader on her excursions through the West Bank in search of indigenous familiar (donkeys, goats, sheep, cows, boars) and endangered (hyenas, jackals, ibexes, wolves) mammals to understand what human engagement with them tells Palestinians and Israelis about themselves and their future in this common land. She describes the changes in the environment over the years and the people she encounters along her walks, digressing to recount stories told to her and to relay interesting facts gleaned from wide-ranging reading, the nagging question never far from her mind: what conditions are needed for humans and animals to flourish? The threats to both are varied, as each chapter makes painfully clear. Chapter 1 begins with the story of Kojak the …

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冲突中的同伴：被占领巴勒斯坦的动物，佩妮·约翰逊着。纽约：Melville House，2019 年。256 页。布 26.99 美元，电子书 12.99 美元。“我探索了生活在这片破碎土地上的一些大型哺乳动物的历史和交织在一起的命运”（第 9 页），作者 Penny Johnson 在 Companions in Conflict 的第二段中告诉我们，她在八章中向读者介绍她穿越西岸寻找熟悉的土著（驴、山羊、绵羊、奶牛、野猪）和濒临灭绝的（鬣狗、豺狼、野山羊、狼）哺乳动物，以了解人类与它们的接触告诉巴勒斯坦人和以色列人关于他们自己和他们的未来在这片共同的土地上。她描述了这些年来环境的变化以及她在散步时遇到的人，离题地讲述给她听的故事，并转述从广泛阅读中收集到的有趣事实，她的脑海中一直萦绕着一个烦人的问题：人类和动物的繁衍需要什么条件？对两者的威胁各不相同，因为每一章都清楚地说明了这一点。第 1 章从 Kojak 的故事开始……