Beastly A New History of Animals and Us
- 2 May 2024
- 9781786896933
- £10.99
- 384 pp
- 130×198mm
- 6 Apr 2023
- 9781786896919
- £8.79
- 384 pp
- 17 Apr 2023
- 9781786896926
- £30
- 16 hrs 39 min
In a few words
Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Conservation, Beastly invites us to consider our place in the wider world and asks how we can still change our impact on the environment
In a few words
Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Conservation, Beastly invites us to consider our place in the wider world and asks how we can still change our impact on the environment
In a few words
The Costa-winning author of Dadland invites us to reconnect with our wild world and see how we can still change our impact on the environment
A dazzling examination of our contradictory attitudes towards the creatures with whom we share the planet . . . [A] fantastic, heartfelt history of human-animal relations
[A] heartfelt account of the environmental catastrophe . . . Beastly is a clarion call for the humbler notion that every bit of nature matters
A dazzling examination of our contradictory attitudes towards the creatures with whom we share the planet . . . [A] fantastic, heartfelt history of human-animal relations
[A] heartfelt account of the environmental catastrophe . . . Beastly is a clarion call for the humbler notion that every bit of nature matters
A dazzling examination of our contradictory attitudes towards the creatures with whom we share the planet . . . [A] fantastic, heartfelt history of human-animal relations
[A] heartfelt account of the environmental catastrophe . . . Beastly is a clarion call for the humbler notion that every bit of nature matters
More about
the book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION
A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES, WATERSTONES AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE
A NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB MUST READ
Beastly is the 40,000-year story of our changing kinship with the animal world – from the smallest microbe to the largest creature that ever lived. Exploring this relationship through history, culture, science and inspiring examples, Carew makes the passionate case that animals are the key to the planet’s future health, but only if we can save them.
More about
the book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION
A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES, WATERSTONES AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE
A NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB MUST READ
Beastly is the 40,000-year story of our changing kinship with the animal world – from the smallest microbe to the largest creature that ever lived. Exploring this relationship through history, culture, science and inspiring examples, Carew makes the passionate case that animals are the key to the planet’s future health, but only if we can save them.
More about
the book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION
A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES, WATERSTONES AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE
A NEX BIG IDEA CLUB MUST READ
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.
A positive, information-packed read about reconnecting with our wild world
If you are interested in the animal kingdom; if you are interested in the past, present and future of planet Earth; if you are interested in anything at all – then this gorgeous, joyous, sobering book is for you
Reading Beastly is a little like padding, barefoot, through a forest . . . Heartfelt
What a wonderful and unexpected book. The very opposite of beastly: heavenly and amazing, powerful and affecting, a beloved and very fine teller of tales reminds us how small we are in the face of a nature that we neither understand nor wish to respect or, in any real sense, live with
Philippe Sands
A positive, information-packed read about reconnecting with our wild world
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
Reading Beastly is a little like padding, barefoot, through a forest . . . Heartfelt
What a wonderful and unexpected book. The very opposite of beastly: heavenly and amazing, powerful and affecting, a beloved and very fine teller of tales reminds us how small we are in the face of a nature that we neither understand nor wish to respect or, in any real sense, live with
Philippe Sands
A positive, information-packed read about reconnecting with our wild world
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
Reading Beastly is a little like padding, barefoot, through a forest . . . Heartfelt
What a wonderful and unexpected book. The very opposite of beastly: heavenly and amazing, powerful and affecting, a beloved and very fine teller of tales reminds us how small we are in the face of a nature that we neither understand nor wish to respect or, in any real sense, live with
Philippe Sands
Keggie Carew
View profileKeggie Carew lives with her husband Jonathan in Wiltshire where they have a small nature reserve. Before writing, her career was in contemporary art. Keggie is the author of Dadland, which won the 2016 COSTA biography award, and Quicksand Tales.
keggiecarew.co.uk | @keggiec
Keggie Carew
View profileKeggie Carew lives with her husband Jonathan in Wiltshire where they have a small nature reserve. Before writing, her career was in contemporary art. Keggie is the author of Dadland, which won the 2016 COSTA biography award, and Quicksand Tales.
keggiecarew.co.uk | @keggiec
Keggie Carew
View profileKeggie Carew lives with her husband Jonathan in Wiltshire where they have a small nature reserve. Before writing, her career was in contemporary art. Keggie is the author of Dadland, which won the 2016 COSTA biography award, and Quicksand Tales.
keggiecarew.co.uk | @keggiec
