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Charles Foster set out to know the ultimate other: the non-humans, the beasts. And to do that, he tried to be like them, choosing a badger, an otter, a fox, a deer, and a swift. He lived alongside badgers for weeks, sleeping in a sett in a Welsh hillside and eating earthworms, learning to sense the landscape through his nose rather than his eyes. He caught fish in his teeth while swimming like an otter; rooted through London garbage cans as an urban fox; was hunted by bloodhounds as a red deer, nearly dying in the snow. And he followed the swifts on their migration route over the Strait of Gibraltar, discovering himself to be strangely connected to the birds.
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Being A Beast, Charles A. Foster
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- Released
- 2016
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- Title
- Being A Beast
- Subtitle
- Adventures Across the Species Divide
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Charles A. Foster
- Publisher
- Profile Books
- Released
- 2016
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 256
- ISBN10
- 1781255342
- ISBN13
- 9781781255346
- Series
- Tags
- Biographies, Nature, Travel, Psychological Topics, Animals, Science, Europe, Great Britain, Nature Observation, Neuroscience, Brain, Wild Animals, Oxford, North Pole, Badger, Stags and Deer, Otters
- Description
- Charles Foster set out to know the ultimate other: the non-humans, the beasts. And to do that, he tried to be like them, choosing a badger, an otter, a fox, a deer, and a swift. He lived alongside badgers for weeks, sleeping in a sett in a Welsh hillside and eating earthworms, learning to sense the landscape through his nose rather than his eyes. He caught fish in his teeth while swimming like an otter; rooted through London garbage cans as an urban fox; was hunted by bloodhounds as a red deer, nearly dying in the snow. And he followed the swifts on their migration route over the Strait of Gibraltar, discovering himself to be strangely connected to the birds.