Being a beast
Subtitle: adventures across the species divide
By: Charles Foster
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9781627796330
Subjects: Animal behavior; Human-animal relationships; Animals; Food; Habitations; Psychological aspects; Nature writers; Biography
Description: To test the limits of our ability to inhabit lives that are not our own, Charles Foster set out to know the ultimate other: the nonhumans. To do that, he chose five animals and lived alongside them, sleeping as they slept, eating what they ate, learning to sense the landscape through the senses they used. In this lyrical, intimate, and completely radical look at the lives of animals, Charles Foster mingles neuroscience and psychology, nature writing and memoir, and ultimately presents an inquiry into the human experience in our world, carried out by exploring the full range of the life around us.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-226) and index.
Table of contents: title: Becoming a beast; title: Earth 1 : badger; title: Water : otter; title: Fire : fox; title: Earth 2 : red deer; title: Air : swift.