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anneke_b's review against another edition
3.0
Loved the topic, but the editing, please! It is very hard for me to read a book with a lot of spelling and grammar mistakes. It is just so distracting, and this book just really deserves a great editor, because the writing is fine otherwise!
wyliem's review against another edition
hopeful
informative
lighthearted
fast-paced
2.0
Content Warnings
Minor: Animal death and Animal cruelty
cabrerajackey's review against another edition
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
3.5
sophieskilling's review against another edition
3.5
simply just a nice little book that taught me a lot about foxes and made me love them much more
jentidders's review against another edition
3.0
I am firmly in the "love them" camp when it comes to foxes and I really enjoyed reading The Hidden World of the Fox.
Ecologist Adele Brand covers their evolution, cultural history, and philosophical questions alongside her personal experience from her scientific studies and rescue work with foxes.
Unlike the formal writing style that hampers many academics writing for a lay audience, Brand writes with the deft of a novelist, meaning this is a heartfelt, poetic and personable read.
The only thing letting the book down is the lack of pictures which would have added greatly to the descriptions.
Nonetheless, this would make a great holiday season gift for the fox-lover in your life.
Ecologist Adele Brand covers their evolution, cultural history, and philosophical questions alongside her personal experience from her scientific studies and rescue work with foxes.
Unlike the formal writing style that hampers many academics writing for a lay audience, Brand writes with the deft of a novelist, meaning this is a heartfelt, poetic and personable read.
The only thing letting the book down is the lack of pictures which would have added greatly to the descriptions.
Nonetheless, this would make a great holiday season gift for the fox-lover in your life.
alexandraidonea's review against another edition
4.0
Five stars for my interest, four for delivery. I was fascinated to learn about foxes mostly in the U.K., though the author has experience working worldwide; it’s stirred in me again the desire to be working outdoors and with animals/nature. A particular awe for the world, childlike, has awoken in me again, partially through recent recommitment to exercise as relief from anxiety and this book came at the exact right time - I felt actual chills at many sections in how in tune I felt with how the author described the natural world and humans’ place in it and responsibility to it. Those who know me well know my affinity for foxes, and the book did not disappoint. It was less academic than expected, more anecdotal, but entirely sourced - it was the delivery that threw me off, but in the end I enjoyed that thoroughly as well. It was like having a conversation with a friend, listening to stories of experience. I’m suggesting to everyone to read this book, fox fanatics or no - hopefully others feel as connected with nature afterward as I do.
rbsdvm's review against another edition
5.0
I enjoyed this book immensely. Adele Brand is an astute observer of the natural world and shares her scientific expertise in a way that is as much entertaining as it is enlightening.
oisin175's review against another edition
informative
reflective
fast-paced
4.0
A good overview of information on the life cycle and habits of the fox. Mostly focused on the red fox, specifically the red fox within England and the areas around London. A nice balance of informative text and advocacy for a more mutually respectful relationship between humans and foxes. I would have liked for the text to be either broader in scope (i.e. with information on a wider variety of fox species or on a broader range of habitat) or a deeper dive in to move specific information. My issues might have mostly stemmed from the audiobook format since this does tend to flatten information from the text for me, so I may need to try the ebook and see if I need to retract my issues.