Being a Beast

In this “tour de force of modern nature writing,” a passionate naturalist explores what it’s really like to be an animal—by living like them ( The Guardian , UK). In Being a Beast , Charles Foster tests the limits of our ability to walk in another’s footsteps. He lives alongside badgers for weeks, sleeping in a sett in a Welsh hillside and eating earthworms, learning to sense the landscape through his nose rather than his eyes. He catches fish in his teeth while swimming like an otter; roots thr