Human/Nature

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(55 65 81 1)>Several years ago Jane Rawson packed up her beloved inner-city home and moved to the bush. Scared about what climate change would do to the big city and keen to meet more animals she found a new home in a cottage in the Huon Valley. But in a place where nature never really leaves you alone she had to confront her uncomfortable relationship with the outdoors.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(55 65 81 1)>A lyrical work of creative nonfiction </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(55 65 81 1)>Human/Nature</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(55 65 81 1)> is an exploration of how and why we think about the natural world the way we do. If you've ever asked yourself whether humans are ruining nature whether there's a better way for us to belong or whether it's possible to love both the environment and your cat you're not alone. This exquisite contemplative book is for anyone who has ever wondered where they fit in the natural world.</span></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(55 65 81 1)>'In this funny provocative and profoundly moving book Jane Rawson brilliantly unravels the myths about the boundaries of the human and the non-human the natural and the unnatural and love and death that shape our thinking about not just the environment but our history and the future that is already overtaking us. Read it: it's utterly marvellous.' - James Bradley author of</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(55 65 81 1)> </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(55 65 81 1)><em>Deep Water</em></strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(55 65 81 1)>'A sense of possibility and connection can be elusive in these challenging days yet Jane Rawson offers them to us using language that is beautiful wise clear and true.' - Sophie Cunningham author of</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(55 65 81 1)> </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(55 65 81 1)><em>City of Trees</em></strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(55 65 81 1)>'I love this book. I love this writer - her brilliance wit tenderness and keen eyes (and ears and mind). The pages of</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(55 65 81 1)> </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(55 65 81 1)><em>Human/Nature</em> are threaded with delight and grief wonder and questions joy and love. Read this beautiful book and remember your nature.' - Sarah Sentilles author of</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(55 65 81 1)> </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(55 65 81 1)><em>Stranger Care.</em></strong></p><p></p>