The Cat Who Covered The World

The Adventures of Henrietta and Her Foreign Correspondent.

A charming tale about a spunky, curious pet who earned the right to be ranked among the world's most widely-travelled felines.

Henrietta was just a city cat until she ventured overseas with foreign correspondent Christopher Wren and his family. Over 17 years and tens of thousands of miles she became a plucky, indispensable companion for the reporter as he covered world events in Moscow, Cairo, Beijing, Ottawa and Johannesburg.

Wren's often hilarious and sometimes poignant account of his family's adventures show them coping with chaos in faraway places, always with the help of their ever-resourceful cat.

In Russia, Henrietta cadged fish and cabbage at Moscow's Central Market, acquired a taste for caviar, befriended Nobel laureate Andrei Sakharov, and fended off Rasputin, her tomcat nemesis. In Cairo, Henrietta survived being lost for weeks on the street, vied with the Nile River rates for food scraps and miraculously found her way back to her distraught family after they had given her up for dead.

When the Wren family moved to China, she received a medical from the People's Liberation Army, sampled ginger and coriander, feasted weekly on huangyu (a delicacy normally reserved for official banquets) and curled up with the writings of Chairman Mao. In Canada she plowed though snowdrifts like a husky.

'The Cat Who Covered The World' is an often hilarious, sometimes poignant, account of a family's adventures around the globe as they coped with chaos in faraway places - with the help of their ever-resourceful cat.