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Published: 06/04/2023
At once urgent, affecting and immensely enjoyable, Beastly is a deeply insightful exploration of humankind's complicated relationship with other animals and how it has shaped our species.
Shortlisted for the James Cropper Wainwright Prize for Writing on Global Conservation 2023
In a Polish forest a young woman befriends a boar. An Englishman sets up home with two beavers in Saskatchewan. A zoologist watches a fish make a conscious decision. Darwin finds the evidence for evolution in the backyards of pigeon fanciers. The entire population of Croatia anxiously awaits the arrival of a single stork.
Animals have shaped our lives, our land, our civilisation, and they will shape our future. Yet as our impact on the world and the animals we share it with increases, there has never been a greater urgency to understand this foundational relationship.
Beastly is the 40,000-year story of animals and humans as it has never been captured before, seen eye-to-eye and claw-to-hand through those humans who have stepped into the myriad worlds of our animal relatives. Our relationship with animals has always been paradoxical, but the greatest paradox may yet be this: diversity of life can heal ecosystems. Animals - if given the chance - could save us.
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 9781786896902
Number of pages: 384
Weight: 611 g
Dimensions: 240 x 162 x 35 mm
Edition: Main
MEDIA REVIEWS
A dazzling examination of our contradictory attitudes towards the creatures with whom we share the planet . . . [A] fantastic, heartfelt history of human-animal relations - Guardian
[A] heartfelt account of the environmental catastrophe . . . Beastly is a clarion call for the humbler notion that every bit of nature matters - Observer
A positive, information-packed read about reconnecting with our wild world - Independent
If you are interested in the animal kingdom; if you are interested in the past, present and future of planet Earth; if you are interested in anything at all - then this gorgeous, joyous, sobering book is for you - Irish Times
Reading Beastly is a little like padding, barefoot, through a forest . . . Heartfelt - New Statesman
What a wonderful and unexpected book. The very opposite of beastly: heavenly and amazing, powerful and affecting, a beloved and very fine teller of tales reminds us how small we are in the face of a nature that we neither understand nor wish to respect or, in any real sense, live with - PHILIPPE SANDS
I fervently believe everyone should read it . . . From start to finish, it's fabulous - JAMES HOLLAND
A brilliant and insightful selection of revealing stories about our complicated relationship with other animals, told with Carew's uniquely smart and stylish verve. A hugely enjoyable, thought-provoking book - GAIA VINCE
Many stories linger after reading Beastly: a polyphony in which tale after tale accumulates . . . The book is exhilaratingly busy with ideas . . . A cunningly structured book - Perspective
Full of necessary rage, joy and passion: BEASTLY should be mandatory reading for all humans - CLAIRE FULLER
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