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The Bedside Book of Beasts: A Wildlife Miscellany
In a wonderfully diverse selection of writings and gorgeous illustrations, this stunning companion to The Bedside Book of Birds explores the relationship between predators and their prey.
The intricate, complex connection between the hunter and the hunted has defined animal life on earth throughout time. In The Bedside Book of Beasts, Graeme Gibson gathers breathtaking work...more
The intricate, complex connection between the hunter and the hunted has defined animal life on earth throughout time. In The Bedside Book of Beasts, Graeme Gibson gathers breathtaking work...more
Hardcover, 384 pages
Published
November 3rd 2009
by Nan A. Talese
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I really enjoyed this book, although I wish it had included more mythology and fairy tale type stories. The writing collected here is nonetheless interesting; I just enjoy mythology, and it seems like there should be plenty of beast-related mythological tales from which Gibson could have selected.
There are lovely illustrations sprinkled throughout, which made this book a fun read.
Overall, I liked how Gibson took various sources from around the world to create a loose "t...more
There are lovely illustrations sprinkled throughout, which made this book a fun read.
Overall, I liked how Gibson took various sources from around the world to create a loose "t...more
A beautifully produced book, but much more gruesome than I realized when I bought it--sorry Mom!!! The selections are fascinating and well written and the illustrations are lovely and unusual, but the singular focus on the carnivorous nature of "beast" is just too much for me. I would expect that to be part of such a book, but it's really the central theme and because I don't have any affinity with the spiritual nature the author seems to ascribe to the taking and "offering"...more
This book reads like a colletion of things from an encyclopedia. Brief stories some from great literature that never gets noticed that often. I loved the illustrations in this book. I loved the premise behind the idea for the book, but it's just something I'll look at briefly if I am stuck on inspiration or bored in the toilet.
Love the illustrations, but it was definitely more gruesome than expected, and I was hoping for more fables and myths rather than excerpts from journals and people's personal stories.
A fascinating read suitable, as title suggests, for beside, it includes the fine words of Leo Tolstoy, Franz Kafka, Arthur Conan Doyle, Herman Hesse and more, some familiar, some less so. Yes, a fascinating read it most certainly is. Including bears, wolves, owls, lions, those who hunt and those who are hunted, the visuals are little short of wonderful.
Next stop, Gibson's The Bedside Book of Birds.
Next stop, Gibson's The Bedside Book of Birds.
Truly a bedside book. This is a collection of pieces (poetry, stories, historical essays) on predators. It has nice pictures, and by no means needs to be read straight through. You can open to any page and find an interesting piece on the nature of predators, most not longer than a page or two.
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This is a wonderful collection of classical and modern verse, art, and short stories about the relationship between predator and prey. The book itself is absolutely gorgeous. It is full of colorful illustrations. I spent just as much time looking at the pictures as I did reading through the text. It would make a great coffee table book - and I don't mean that as an insult.
Even though this compendium of short stories, poems, and anecdotes took me awhile to read I did enjoy it. Some of the excerpts were familiar and others were things I had never seen before. I loved the artwork placed throughout the book. I'm not sure I am all for reading the Bedside Book of Birds... but maybe someday.
A hodgepodge of myths and stories from various writers, living and dead, about the relationship of humans and wild animals. The illustrations in this book are fantastic.
I'm actually reading a different book that the library had.
The bedside book of birds : an avian miscellany / [compiled by:] Graeme
Gibson.
The bedside book of birds : an avian miscellany / [compiled by:] Graeme
Gibson.
I didn't enjoy this as much as the Bedside Book of Birds but it was a worthwhile read, and the art was worth the price of the book.
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