The Bedside Book of Beasts
A Wildlife Miscellany
This stunning companion to the internationally bestselling Bedside Book of Birds explores the relationship between predators and their prey.
The intricate, complex connection between the hunter and the hunted has defined animal life on Earth throughout time. In The Bedside Book of Beasts, Graeme Gibson gathers from all eras and cultures works of art and literature that capture the power, grace, and inventiveness of both predators and their natural prey. Here are myths, fables, poetry, generous excerpts from nature and travel writing, journals, sacred texts, and works of fiction. There are vivid descriptions of noteworthy predators — including the big cats, bears, wolves — but also the small but voracious praying mantis. Gibson also brings to life the experiences, strategies, and…
$40.00
October 20, 2009
An important spokesman for Canadian cultural identity, Gibson was the initial organizer and a founding member of the Writers' Union of Canada, and was its chairman in 1976. He was also an organizer and founding member of the Writers' Trust, a non-profit organization, and was subsequently its chairman. From 1987 to 1989 he was president of the Canadian Centre of International PEN. In 1990, he won a Toronto Arts Award for writing and publishing, and, in 1992 he received the Order of Canada. He is the author of four novels: Five Legs (1969), Communion (1971), Perpetual Motion (1982), and Gentleman Death (1993), as well as two bedside companions, The Bedside Book of Birds (2005) and The Bedside Book of Beasts (2009). Graeme Gibson died in September 2019.
The Bedside Book of Birds
Graeme Gibson
Gentleman Death / Perpetual Motion
Graeme Gibson, Introduction by Margaret Atwood Introduction by Margaret Atwood
Perpetual Motion
Graeme Gibson, Afterword by Ramsay Cook
Last of the Curlews
Fred Bodsworth, Afterword by Graeme Gibson Afterword by Graeme Gibson
The Bedside Book of Beasts
Graeme Gibson