Graeme Gibson’s Bedside Book of Beasts – A Wildlife Miscellany is a delightful and absorbing collection of writings and works of art, tracing humanity’s close relationships with animals through the ages. We love them as pets, hunt and farm them for food, draw inspiration for our art and engineering, and fear them as predators. The book’s beautiful design and wide range of artists and authors, both modern and ancient, invite dipping in for a poem here, a sculpture or cave drawing there.
Drawing upon his years as a conservationist and birder, Gibson binds the contributions with insightful introductions to each section, blending science, philosophy, psychology and art. Beasts follows Gibson’s previous acclaimed Bedside Book of Birds – An Avian Miscellany, also stunning. Keep this menagerie at the bedside, visit often, and dream of beasts once more.
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