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A review by gwendle_vs_literature
Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter by Ben Goldfarb
informative
medium-paced
4.0
A small colony of beavers has recently formed at my local nature sanctuary, and when the weather and my energy levels allowed I was going for sunrise walks to watch them.
That was the spark that ignited my interest in learning everything I can about beavers, and I think I made a good choice when I picked Eager as my next step after Wikipedia and other online articles.
Some of the structure of the book felt a bit scattered, but non-fiction often does, because the author either had to sort my location and repeat talking about behaviours, or sort my behaviour and jump to different times and places.
Beavers have the potential to help us reverse climate change, but as a species we’re too stubborn and determined to get rid of anything that disrupts the status quo — we want less lunate change, but not at the expense of flooded roads, or of allowing nature to reclaim some of the land we’ve stolen.
If you’re looking for an informative but not overly scientific book about beavers then I can highly recommend this one.
That was the spark that ignited my interest in learning everything I can about beavers, and I think I made a good choice when I picked Eager as my next step after Wikipedia and other online articles.
Some of the structure of the book felt a bit scattered, but non-fiction often does, because the author either had to sort my location and repeat talking about behaviours, or sort my behaviour and jump to different times and places.
Beavers have the potential to help us reverse climate change, but as a species we’re too stubborn and determined to get rid of anything that disrupts the status quo — we want less lunate change, but not at the expense of flooded roads, or of allowing nature to reclaim some of the land we’ve stolen.
If you’re looking for an informative but not overly scientific book about beavers then I can highly recommend this one.