Charles Foster
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books / Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A radically immersive exploration of three pivotal moments in the evolution of human consciousness, asking what kinds of creatures humans were, are, and might yet be"--
How did humans come to be who we are? In hiw widely lauded book Being a Beast, legal scholar, veterinary surgeon, and naturalist Charles Foster set out to understand the consciousness of animals by living as a badger and other species. Now he inhabits three crucial periods of human...
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
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...
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