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Pests
- How Humans Create Animal Villains
- By: Bethany Brookshire
- Narrated by: Courtney Patterson
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 51
A squirrel in the garden. A rat in the wall. A pigeon on the street. Humans have spent so much of our history drawing a hard line between human spaces and wild places. When animals pop up where we don’t expect or want them, we respond with fear, rage, or simple annoyance. It’s no longer an animal. It’s a pest. At the intersection of science, history, and narrative journalism, Pests is not a simple call to look closer at our urban ecosystem. It’s not a natural history of the animals we hate. Instead, this book is about us.
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Amazing Conclusion!
- By Anonymous User on 01-29-23
- Pests
- How Humans Create Animal Villains
- By: Bethany Brookshire
- Narrated by: Courtney Patterson
Knowledgeable and Insightful Look Into Society
Reviewed: 12-27-22
As a personal friend of the author, I love that she writes like she speaks—articulately and matter-of-factly, among other adverbs— but also, that the narrator "got" her voice--timing, inflection, humor--such that listening just sounds like my friend talking to me about a subject she knows well. I absolutely loved it!
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