Beastly: The 40,000-Year Story of Animals and Us (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781419767036)

From an award-winning writer, a story-rich exploration of our shared planet, and the astonishing, moving, and troubled connections between humans and other animals

Animals have shaped our minds, our lives, our land, and our civilization. Humanity would not have gotten very far without them, and yet, over the past two centuries, the relationship has grown further apart. In Beastly, author Keggie Carew seeks to re-enchant readers with the wild world, reframing our understanding of what it is like to be an animal and what our role is as humans.

Beastly throws readers headlong into the mind-blowing, heart-thumping, glittering pageant of life, and goes in search of our most revealing encounters with the animal world throughout the centuries to show where we've come from and where we're going. How did we domesticate animals and why did we choose sheep, goats, cows, pigs, horses, and chickens--but never zebras? How can whales help solve climate change? What does it mean when a young woman befriends a boar, a gorilla tells a joke, or a fish thinks? What does a wren sing? Beastly is a gorgeously written, deeply researched, and intensely felt journey into the splendor and genius of animals and the long, complicated story of our interactions with them as humans. Our relationship with animals has shaped our planet and, if reimagined, could save it.

Author: Keggie Carew
ISBN-10: 1419767038
ISBN-13: 9781419767036
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Language: English
Published: 07/18/2023
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.28lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.35w x 1.26d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 05/15/2023
Publishers Weekly 05/22/2023
Booklist 06/01/2023 pg. 11