Being a Human

By Charles Foster,

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NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE ATLANTIC, KIRKUS REVIEWS, AND NEW STATESMAN

A radically immersive exploration of three pivotal moments in the evolution of human consciousness, asking what kinds of creatures humans were, are, and might yet be

How did humans come to be who we are?ā€¦

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Foster is incapable of writing a boring sentence. He's not only madder than a coot, he's also brilliant. Nobody else would dream up such a project: to try and live as a human from different time periods, experiencing the stream of consciousness of a highly erudite modern human stripped of all of the appurtenances of modern life. It's a fascinating experiment, as was Being Animal, in which he lived as various native UK animals, and the account he creates, with all the interesting diverticulae, is equally so. For fans of playing with language and ideas, and anyone who likes sidelongā€¦

Incredible intersting, by an author who knows so much, but dares to feel even more.

A raw and bloody gem of a book, which plunges the reader into the cold and dirty world of our deep past, not just seen but experienced by its multi-talented author.

A philosophical hankering to know what it means to be human ā€“ and what we have inherited from our evolutionary past -leads this trained veterinarian, barrister, and writer to go back to nature in a Derbyshire wood. He and his long-suffering son experience the freezing, claw-red, and skin-tearing nature of the wild, as they seek to live similarly to our prehistoric ancestors.

Drawing inspiration from the 40,000 years ofā€¦

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