Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea, and Human Life
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| Rating | : | 4.35 (599 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 022632527X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 344 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Sounds like an interesting guy" according to silverstar. Don't let George Monbiot's bio in Wikipedia scare you with its mention of his being sentenced to lifeimprisonment in absentia in Indonesia, being shot at, beaten up by military police, shipwrecked, stung into a poisonedcoma by hornets, and pronounced clinically dead with cerebral malaria. Sounds like an interesting guy, right?This investigative journalist, himself . "Fascinating; Informative, and Entertaining." according to Sabbath x. Feral is an open invitation for humanity to reengage with nature and thereby reconnect with a suppressed but crucial facet of our identity. It is also a profoundly thought-provoking, in-depth examination of the principles and methodology - both successful and questionable - behind current conservation efforts, and current and [possible] future rewilding projects. I. Beverly Hunter said a love of land and water and life on the one. Monbiot's book is a surprising mixture of personal experience and statistical data; a blend of reality and dreams; a love of land and water and life on the one hand and some assessment of political realities on the other. I am buying a dozen of these books for some of my dearest friends, to stretch our conversation beyond the mundane griping and up into the world o
Bring on the wolves and whales, I say, and, in the words of Maurice Sendak, let the wild rumpus start.”. “As a passionate polemic, Feral could not be more rigorously researched, more elegantly delivered, or more timely. We need such big thinking for our own sakes and those of our children
Monbiot takes readers on an enchanting journey around the world to explore ecosystems that have been rewilded”: freed from human intervention and allowedin some cases for the first time in millenniato resume their natural ecological processes. We share his awe, and wonder, as he kayaks among dolphins and seabirds off the coast of Wales and wanders the forests of Eastern Europe, where lynx and wolf packs are reclaiming their ancient hunting grounds. Through his eyes, we see environmental successand begin to envision a future world where humans and nature are no longer separate and antagonistic, but are together part of a single, healing world. Monbiot’s commitment is fierce, his passion infectious, his writing co