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8 October 2024<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Charles Foster is a Fellow of Exeter College, a qualified veterinarian, teaches medical law and ethics, and is a practicing barrister. He has taken part in expeditions all over the world, from racing across the Algerian Sahara to skiing to the North Pole, and has written books on law, philosophy, natural history, anthropology, archaeology, travel, evolutionary biology and theology. His publications include The Screaming Sky<\/em><\/a>, which was shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize, Being Human<\/em><\/a>, and most recently, Cry of the Wild<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

His 2016 publication Being a Beast<\/em><\/a> was long-listed for the Baillie Gifford Prize and the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing and has been selected for the 2024 Wild Reads collection. You can find Being a Beast<\/em> and Charles’ other books on the Suffolk Community Libraries catalogue<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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What was your first introduction to the natural world? Did you have pets or enjoy exploring woodlands as a child?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sorry to begin truculently, but I don\u2019t like the expression \u2018natural world\u2019. The American philosopher and naturalist David Abram rightly says that there are only relatively un-wild places. We\u2019d know, if we saw it properly, that an inner-city shopping mall is a natural place, full of uncontrolled and uncontrollable wildness \u2013 just like our skins and our guts. So my first introduction to the natural world was my first sensation as an embryo or foetus. And my first introduction to the natural world outside my mother was, presumably, the blindingly bright clinical lights and the antiseptic smell of the hospital.<\/p>\n

But my first memory is of a tawny owl blinking at me outside my bedroom window. I grew up on the edge of Sheffield, where howling wilderness met privet hedges, and like all children I wasn\u2019t a biped for quite a while, and crawled around with my nose and eyes and mouth at the level of rabbits and hedgehogs, smelling and seeing and eating the world more intensely than I\u2019ve done since. I was more part of it than I am now. I had more of a relationship with it. And then as I grew up and away from the ground I started, like everyone else, to substitute my ideas about the world for the world itself. That wasn\u2019t a good trade. And I watched birds and mammals, and wrote nature diaries, and stuffed roadkill and had dead birds suspended on a thread over my bed, and pickled bird brains in formalin and went to holding them, hoping that the birds\u2019 knowledge would seep into me. It didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Yes, we had pets: the usual. Mice, hamsters, rabbits. And people brought injured and orphaned things to us in cardboard boxes: hedgehogs, crows, foxes and blackbirds, and I tried to put them back together again. And I dissected things in the garden shed and began to think that if I knew how to take things apart I understood them. That was a bad, bad mistake.<\/p>\n

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You have travelled widely. What’s the strangest place you’ve ever read a book?<\/strong><\/p>\n

In hospital after I\u2019d smashed up my leg in the sea. The man in the bed next to me thought that the walls seethed with snakes, and before I was screwed together again, every time I moved I felt the grating of the bone ends. I was reading Winnie the Pooh.<\/p>\n

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What’s your writing process in the wild? How do you record your thoughts and observations?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019m a great believer in old-fashioned notebooks and pens. Thoughts flow down a pen in a way that they don\u2019t into a computer keyboard. But I never write anything down when I\u2019m actually watching. Writing and watching require completely different types of attention. And \u2013 up to a point \u2013 I think that if a thought or observation isn\u2019t powerful enough to survive the journey back from the wood or the seashore or the mountain to the desk where the notebook lives, it probably doesn\u2019t deserve a place in a book. So: I watch, compose a draft in my head, probably staring into the middle distance, and then transcribe the draft onto the laptop.<\/p>\n

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The meeting when you pitched Being a Beast<\/strong><\/em><\/a> to your publisher must have been interesting. ‘I’m going to live in the wild as a badger, an otter, a fox’.. How did they react?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It didn\u2019t happen like that. The manuscript was complete by the time my agent pitched it to publishers. There was a gratifying amount of interest in the book and not, I like to think, because it was thought to be weird and sensationalist. I hope and believe that the interest reflected a sense that many of us have of solidarity with the non-human world, and a consequent interest in how close our relationship with non-humans can be.<\/p>\n

Can we really know what it is like to be a fox? Increasingly, as people read the book, they realised that the book is not really about worm-eating or trying to catch fish with your teeth, or manically criss-crossing continents, chasing the swifts, but about how accessible otherness generally is. Can I really know what it is like to be anything other than Charles Foster? If I can, I\u2019m likely to feel less lonely: less frustratingly locked up in the echo chamber of my own skull. Trying to enter the world of a fox is good training for trying to enter the worlds of your best friends and your worst enemies. And therefore a good training in empathy. My publishers understood that.<\/p>\n

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You eventually narrowed down your choice to badger, otter, fox, red deer and swift. Were there any other animals that nearly made the final choice?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Killer whales, rabbits, gannets, eels and mayflies, all of which I\u2019ve written about in Cry of the Wild<\/em>. And seals, which I\u2019m writing about at the moment.<\/p>\n

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How did the experience change you and what did you miss most?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It made me cold, nauseated, thinner, smellier, and all the more convinced that relationships are really the only things worth working at. I missed red wine, waves, Greece and, far more than anything else, my family.<\/p>\n

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Can you tell us a little about your latest book, Cry of the Wild<\/strong><\/em><\/a>?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cry of the Wild<\/em> is a collection of short stories about eight species: five mammals (including that very, very interesting mammal, the human, about whom I\u2019ve written in Being a Human), a bird, a fish and an insect. It tries to let the reader feel what it\u2019s like for these animals to live alongside us \u2013 under siege. The story form is essential. We\u2019re little, local stories ourselves, and we are only really convinced by other little, local stories. We can\u2019t feel what we should about grand, terrifying notions like climate change and mass extinction. All the scary graphs in the world won\u2019t convince like one tale of the fate of the frog in the pond at the end of the road.<\/p>\n

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Wild Reads is a project that aims to connect the natural world with the written word. Do you have a favourite nature writer or book that you would recommend?<\/strong><\/p>\n

There\u2019s a dazzling array of brilliant nature writers currently at work. Many are my friends. It would be invidious to name one. I go back again and again to Richard Jefferies and the American Transcendentalists, but if I had to choose a book, it would be Kathleen Raine\u2019s The Lion\u2019s Mouth<\/em> (1977). It\u2019s the final volume of her autobiography, and isn\u2019t usually thought of as a nature book. It\u2019s mostly an account of her tempestuous relationship with Gavin Maxwell. Raine was a major poet and a considerable scholar of the classical worlds and of the religions of the East, and her scholarship and artistry and unusual type of attention make her poised but passionate descriptions of landscape and wildness \u2013 particularly in the west Highlands of Scotland \u2013 shimmer with a luminescence I\u2019ve not met in any other writing.<\/p>\n

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You’ve followed several careers – is there a job you’d like to do but haven’t yet?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019d love to be a long-distance lorry driver.<\/p>\n

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Can you tell us one thing about yourself that your readers may not know?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019m missing part of a digit on my left hand. I was on a ski expedition to the North Pole, and when I took off my glove I found that the end of a finger was rock solid. It was frozen meat. A few months later, on a blazing summer day, I was fiddling round with the black, necrotic finger tip and it just snapped off. I\u2019ve still got it in a box somewhere in the house.[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_divider][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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