Being a Beast: Adventures Across the Species Divide (Hardcover)

from TheoSmit

To quote Hugh Warwick; "Transcendentally eccentric nature wrtiting of the first order. That says it all and than God that it gives no specifics because you have to read it to believe it and I am afraid that anything I might say would keep you from reading it.

from dele2451

A truly unique and passionate voice in today's nature writing! (Warning: Spoiler Alert) Living as a badger in an underground dirt den and nocturnally foraging on the ground as they do as well as eating their diet for weeks on end? Then bringing your 8-year old son along to do the same? By the tim...

from PoetVictoria

I loved this book! I felt like I was back in school with someone who wanted to challenge me to really learn something. His sentences are full and fat and seriously transcendent. I learned a lot about the animals, but even more about life itself. Dr. Foster is like the eccentric professor whose cl...

from et.carole

Foster tries to understand several of the woodland animals around him, including the badger, the urban fox, the red deer, and the swift. He attacks from every experiential, academic, and cultural angle, presenting his own experiences sleeping under sheds and tracking migration paths across oceans...

from PDCRead

Have you ever wondered just what it would be like to be an eagle soaring on thermals or a stag surveying your territory? Some of us may have whilst walking in the countryside or over a contemplative drink, but Charles Foster wanted to know what it was like. Really, really wanted to know… So he ch...