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Beastly Synopsis
A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST SUMMER BOOK OF 2023: ENVIRONMENT
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.
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9781786896902 |
| Publication date: |
6th April 2023 |
| Author: |
Keggie Carew |
| Publisher: |
Canongate Books |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| Pagination: |
384 pages |
| Primary Genre |
Nature
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Press Reviews
Keggie Carew Press 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
'Gorgeous, joyous, sobering. Carew has a jaunty, alluring style of writing, a caustic sense of humour and a gift when it comes to delivering hefty information with lightness and wit . . . This book is the product of years of rigorous work and boundless devotion' - Irish Times
'Reading Beastly is a little like padding, barefoot, through a forest . . . Heartfelt' - New Statesman
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About Keggie Carew
Keggie Carew has lived in London, West Cork, Barcelona, Texas and New Zealand. Before writing, her career was in contemporary art. She lives near Salisbury. Tom Carew was born in Dublin in 1919. He served in the Jedburgh unit of the Special Operations Executive in the Second World War. The Times of India called him 'Lawrence of Burma' and 'the Mad Irishman'. He married three times, and had four children. He died in 2009.
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