"Novelist Lydia Millet's first work of nonfiction ... is a genre-defying tour de force that makes an impassioned argument for people to see their emotional and spiritual lives as infinitely dependent on the lives of nonhuman beings. Drawing on a quarter-century of experience as an advocate for endangered species, ... Millet offers intimate portraits of what she calls 'the others'--the extraordinary animals with whom we still share the world, along...