Wild Souls
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Winner of the 2022 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award * Winner of the 2022 Science in Society Journalism Award (Books) * Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
“Thoughtful, insightful, and wise, Wild Souls is a landmark work.”--Ed Yong, author of An Immense World
"Fascinating . . . hands-on…
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3 authors picked Wild Souls as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Emma Marris is a phenomenal writer; her nature writing has been compared to that of Aldo Leopold and Rachael Carson.
Wild Souls focuses on how people relate to other animals. That might sound like a philosophical topic but it has real world consequences. Her stories will force you to question your own motives and morals when asked to compare one animal to another or define what “nature” even is anymore.
Full of entertaining stories and nutritious food for thought.
From Brant's list on if you are interested in wildlife conservation.
We love wild animals, right? We love to see or go into the wilderness. But what makes wilderness wilderness, and how wild is wild? If and every California condor is bred in captivity, are those animals wild? When a rat is living on an island and threatening seabirds, is it right to drop tons of poison, and kill thousands of rats, to save 100 chicks? And whether it’s right or wrong, whose decision is it to make? Emma Marris tackles these questions with science, ethics, and beautiful, clear, sweeping prose, and comes to her own philosophical conclusions. This book helped…
From Bethany's list on making you rethink your place in the natural world.
This is a very important work in which the author marries philosophy and cutting-edge conservation science. Using a series of charismatic animals as her vehicles, she unravels the fuzzy thinking around the concepts of 'wild' and 'nature', leaving the reader's concepts of these, if not forever changed, then at least forever deepened.
From Menno's list on biology in the Anthropocene.
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