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Titel: Being a Beast
Zustand: Neu
Autor: Charles Foster
Produktart: Taschenbuch
ISBN-10: 1781255350
EAN: 9781781255353
ISBN: 9781781255353
Ausgabe: Main
Verlag: Profile Books Ltd
Genre: Home Garden & Pets
Thematik: Biography
Erscheinungsdatum: 04.08.2016
Description: LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2016Charles Foster wanted to know what it was like to be a beast: a badger, an otter, a deer, a fox, a swift. What it was really like. And through knowing what it was like he wanted to get down and grapple with the beast in us all.So he tried it out; he lived life as a badger for six weeks, sleeping in a dirt hole and eating earthworms, he came face to face with shrimps as he lived like an otter and he spent hours curled up in a back garden in East London and rooting in bins like an urban fox. A passionate naturalist, Foster realises that every creature creates a different world in its brain and lives in that world. As humans, we share sensory outputs, lights, smells and sound, but trying to explore what it is actually like to live in another of these worlds, belonging to another species, is a fascinating and unique neuro-scientific challenge. For Foster it is also a literary challenge. Looking at what science can tell us about what happens in a fox's or badger's brain when it picks up a scent, he then uses this to imagine their world for us, to write it through their eyes or rather through the eyes of Charles the beast. An intimate look at the life of animals, neuroscience, psychology, nature writing, memoir and more, it is a journey of extraordinary thrills and surprises, containing wonderful moments of humour and joy, but also providing important lessons for all of us who share life on this precious planet.
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellungsland und -region: GB
Höhe: 198mm
Länge: 129mm
Breite: 16mm
Gewicht: 236g
Title Format: Taschenbuch

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