Chloe Dalton Raising Hare: A Memoir

《Raising Hare: A Memoir》是Chloe Dalton的一部回忆录，讲述了她在英格兰乡村偶遇并收养一只幼兔（leveret，一种小兔子）的温馨故事。这本书不仅是一次关于野生动物救助的个人经历，更是一次对人与自然和谐共处的深刻探讨。

书中，Dalton以细腻的笔触描绘了她在冬日散步时偶然发现这只幼兔的情景，以及随后与这只小兔子建立起的特殊联系。她原本对兔子一无所知，但出于同情和爱心，决定将其带回家中照顾。在这个过程中，Dalton逐渐了解到兔子的习性和行为模式，同时也面临着如何平衡野生动物救助与人类干预之间的难题。

Dalton以第一人称的视角，真实记录了救助幼兔的全过程，包括寻找食物、搭建住所、应对疾病等挑战。她的坚持和努力，让读者感受到了人与动物之间真挚的情感纽带。书中不仅描述了幼兔的成长变化，还穿插了对周围自然环境的细致观察。Dalton通过文字，带领读者走进了一个充满生机与活力的自然世界。

《Raising Hare: A Memoir》是一部充满温情与哲思的回忆录。它不仅讲述了一个关于救助与成长的故事，更是一次对人与自然关系的深刻反思。Dalton的文字优美而富有感染力，让读者在享受阅读乐趣的同时，也能从中汲取到关于生命、爱与责任的启示。

书名：Raising Hare: A Memoir

作者：Chloe Dalton

简介：A moving and fascinating meditation on freedom, trust, loss, and our relationship with the natural world, explored through the story of one woman’s unlikely friendship with a wild hare.

Imagine you could hold a baby hare and bottle-feed it. Imagine that it lived under your roof and lolloped around your bedroom at night, drumming on the duvet cover when it wanted your attention. Imagine that, over two years later, it still ran in from the fields when you called it and slept in your house for hours on end and gave birth to leverets in your study. For political advisor and speechwriter Chloe Dalton, who spent lockdown deep in the English countryside, far away from her usual busy London life, this became her unexpected reality.

In February 2021, Dalton stumbles upon a newborn hare—a leveret—that had been chased by a dog. Fearing for its life, she brings it home, only to discover how impossible it is to rear a wild hare, most of whom perish in captivity from either shock or starvation. Through trial and error, she learns to feed and care for the leveret with every intention of returning it to the wilderness. Instead, it becomes her constant companion, wandering the fields and woods at night and returning to Dalton’s house by day. Though Dalton feared that the hare would be preyed upon by foxes, stoats, feral cats, raptors, and even people, she never tried to restrict it to the house. Each time the hare leaves, Chloe knows she may never see it again. Yet she also understands that to confine it would be its own kind of death.

Raising Hare chronicles their journey together, while also taking a deep dive into the lives and nature of hares, and the way they have been viewed historically in art, literature, and folklore. We witness first-hand the joy at this extraordinary relationship between human and animal, which serves as a reminder that the best things, and most beautiful experiences, arise when we least expect them.