What is it like to live in a world dominated by humans These eight genre-blending stories reveal the complexity,beauty and fragility of wild lives - a brilliantly modern twist on classics like Watership Down and Tarka the Otter.
A fox,grown strong on pepperoni pizza from the dustbins of the East End,dances along a railway track towards Essex,the territory of wild foxes and wilder huntsmen.
An orca,mourning the loss of her mother in a valley west of Skye,knows that she must now lead the pod as matriarch. She swims again through her childhood,thinking about the old ways,the old roads,laid down thousands of years ago. But the old roads aren't so easy now.
At moonrise in a West Country river,an otter floats slowly downstream. The tide,though it pushes him landwards when it exhales,seems to pull him out when it inhales. He turns on his back. He can see the stars clearly for the first time and wonders if he can swim to them.
The wild has never stopped waiting. It has only ever been in exile,right under our noses,waiting to confound,outrage and re-enchant.
Publisher: Transworld Publishers LtdISBN: 9780857529381Number of pages: 256Weight: 377 gDimensions: 222 x 144 x 26 mm
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'Highly imaginative... Evocative and beautifully written,it's a deeply immersive read.'- The Observer
'Charles Foster is the most original voice in nature writing today - funny,urgent,poetic,philosophical and deeply moving. These shape-shifting,illuminating stories send us into the souls of other animals,bequeathing them personhood and giving us precious enlightenment and,hopefully,the inspiration to take action.'- Patrick Barkham,author of Wild Green Wonders
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