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The causes Salt chose to champion were even less popular in his lifetime than they are today, so he has always had to rely on the support of like-minded people to get his work published. Since his death a handful of people have worked to keep his work alive:
George
Hendrick and Willene Hendrick
When George Hendrick's Henry Salt: Humanitarian Reformer and Man of Letters
was published in 1977 it was the first book on Salt's life in over 25 years.
Without his research many details on his life and works would have been lost
forever. More than anyone George Hendrick has brought Salt's work to a whole
new generation of humanitarian campaigner. His interest in Salt can be traced
back to his own research into Thoreau and Gandhi, both significant figures in
Henry Salt's life. It's not only admirers of Salt's work who owe George Hendrick
a great debt, but also those interested in Thoreau's work as George and Willene
edited the unpublished revised version of Henry Salt's Life of Henry David
Thoreau regarded by many as the most perceptive study of the Concord naturalist.
George Hendrick was until recently a Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champion. Apart from his books on Salt he has also had published Remembrances of Concord and the Thoreaus, Toward the Making of Thoreau's Modern Reputation (with Fritz Oehlschlaeger), Thoreau Amongst Friends and Philistines and other Thoreauviana by Dr. S. A. Jones, and Ever the Winds of Change (with Margaret Sandburg).
Willene is an independent scholar who lives in Urbans, Illinois. She has coedited with George Hendrick The Savour of Salt, Life of Henry David Thoreau, On the Illinois Frontier: Dr. Hiram Rutherford, 1840 -1848 and Katherine Anne Porter, revised edition.
George and Willene Hendrick have also edited several books on the poet Carl Sanburg included the acclaimed Selected Poems. In January 2000, their latest collabation was published, Two Slave Rebellions at Sea: The Heroic Slave and Benito Cereno (ISBN: 1881089452 Publisher: Brandywine Press). Next year should see the release of James Jones and the Handy Writers' Colony.
Jon Wynne-Tyson
Jon ran a small publishing firm Centaur Press for nearly fifty years. Centaur
launched many important books in the field of humane causes, including Henry
Salt's Animals' Rights, George and Willene Hendrick's anthology The
Savour of Salt, and Henry Salt's Life of Henry David Thoreau (edited
G & W Hendrick/ Oehlschlaeger) and Howard Moore's The Universal Kinship
which Salt consider the best book ever written in the cause an animal rights.
Jon is also a highly regarded writer in his own right and has had several plays,
novels and non-fictional titles published. Food for a Future and The
Extended Circle have rightly been acclaimed to be classics of their time.
John F.
Pontin
John is a long time admirer of Salt's writing. George and Willene have acknowledged
the support John has provided them during their study of Salt and he had the
honour of writing the preface to The Savour of Salt: A Henry Salt Anthology.
Simon
Wild
Simon, along with his
wife Jaine, runs the West Sussex Wildlife Protection group. Recently Simon had
a short biography of Salt published in the League Against Cruel Sports magazine
Wildlife Guardian.
Chien-hui Li
Chien-hui is finishing her PhD on the animal defence movement in the nineteenth
century. Originally focused solely on Salt and the movement in the late nineteenth
and early twentieth centuries, but has also addressed some of the larger issues
in a longer time span. A future biographer of Henry Salt and the Humanitarian
League?
Open Gate
Press
When Open Gate Press acquired Centaur Press they ensured that the books
of Henry Salt and others from the excellent Kinship series would continue to
be available for the foreseeable future. Visit their site www.opengatepress.demon.co.uk
(Note: it doesn't always appear as it should.)
Charles R. Magel
Charles is Professor of Philosopy at Moorhead State University, Miinnesota.
His book Keyguide to Information Sources in Animal Rights identifies
information sources that are important for anyone researching animal rights,
whatever their point of view. He also edited the Centaur Press version
of Howard Moore's classic The Universal Kinship (see homepage for more
details.) The book list on this site was compiled by Charles and published
in Salt's Animals' Rights and many of the book details are from his Keyguide.