| Author/Contributor(s): | Foster, Charles |
| Publisher: | Penguin |
| Date: | 02/18/2025 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
"Highly imaginative... Evocative and beautifully written, it's a deeply immersive read." —Observer
"Fiercely polemical, forcing the reader to see the world in a new light... Charles Foster is an original thinker with a strangely compelling prose style... Cry of the Wild is thought-provoking, profound, at times infused with a beautifully wistful lyricism and often witty." ―Country Life
"Foster [brings] a sense of wonder: geese fly in from the north with snow falling from their wings; imagined through the eyes of a young rabbit, a white owl wafts through the still night air like thistledown, a strangely beautiful occurrence that might at any moment end the rabbit's life... He avoids the temptations of anthropomorphism while reminding us that we who share these traits are more vulnerably and elegantly animal than we pretend." —Literary Review
"Emotional without being anthropomorphic, it is a thought-provoking read." ―BBC Wildlife Magazine
"Like Tarka, the stories in Cry of the Wild are not written for children. They take on the qualities of myth and magic which touch the source of our deepest feelings. How does the word on the printed page do this? ... the prose is muscular and astonishing... "Immersion" is a word commonly used about reading these days. I dislike it intensely. The sound of the word feels cold, unpleasant, like being pressed underwater. Not at all the deep sobbing that emerged from somewhere as I sat with these stories... This is not like any other nature book." ― Caught by the River
"Being a Human, like Being a Beast, the (also extraordinary) book that preceded it, is both a learned treatise and a kind of visionary journalism; it reports back from the edges of our cramped consciousness." ―The Atlanticon Being a Human
"Foster is a writer of extraordinary ability. His descriptions of nature dazzle . . . Being a Human[is] a lesson in what to watch for in nature. It’s a discourse on the sentience we may have had as early humans and that, over millennia, we’ve somehow roasted into a crisp. It’s funny. It’s moving. It’s mind-expanding. It’s a collection of thoughts to read again and again." ―Forbes on Being a Human
."A magpie book full of intriguing anthropological sketches . . . that fits neatly into the growing library of modern British natural history writing, alongside the best of Nan Shepherd, Robert Macfarlane, and Roger Deakin." ―Kirkus Reviews (starred) on Being a Human
"A truly wonderful book . . . in the literal sense of the phrase. A book of wonders." ―Lewis H. Lapham, The World in Time podcast (Lapham's Quarterly) on Being a Human