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Being a beast : adventures across the species divide / Charles Foster.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 1627796339
- ISBN: 9781627796330
- Physical Description: 235 pages ; 22 cm.
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company, 2016.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Becoming a beast -- Earth 1 : badger -- Water : otter -- Fire : fox -- Earth 2 : red deer -- Air : swift. |
| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 39.00 |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Foster, Charles, 1962- Animal behavior. Animals > Psychological aspects. Animals > Food. Animals > Habitations. Human-animal relationships. Nature writers > Great Britain > Biography. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lakeshore Branch | 591.5 Fos | 31681020053211 | NONFIC | Available | - |
Charles Foster is a Fellow of Green Templeton College at the University of Oxford. He is a qualified veterinarian, teaches medical law and ethics, and is a practicing barrister. Much of his life has been spent on expeditions: he has run a 150-mile race in the Sahara, skied to the North Pole, and suffered injuries in many desolate and beautiful landscapes. He has written on travel, evolutionary biology, natural history, anthropology, and philosophy.
