A review by deedoo
Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life by George Monbiot

1.0

I had high hopes for this book. It’s just story after story of him in the “wild“. Descriptions of him kayaking and catching fish. How sad he is at the state of the wilderness, particularly in his backyard. I feel like he was getting very close to actually explaining himself in one chapter and then it just ended. The blurb about the guy who beat a child and then killed his ex girlfriend and her new boyfriend was confusing. Long description of this criminal evading the police for a couple of weeks only to have a six hour show down where he ultimately kills himself, and I can’t tell if the author was condemning the guy or looked up to him. Seriously I could absolutely see the author saying “see this is an example of needing to be wild and that’s why he did all these things, etc.”

Maybe later on in the book he does more than wax poetic about how he would like to leave the suburbs and how badass various tribes are, but I can’t waste my time reading in that hope.