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charlie_bevis's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
funny
reflective
medium-paced
4.75
chillcox15's review against another edition
2.0
2.5 Stars. Daisy Hildyard's exploration of how our embodied experience (our first body) affects our connectivity to the wider ecological world (our second body) has some occasionally good bits, but the argument as it is presented is completely lackluster. There's no real satisfying justification or explanation of the 'second body' concept as the totalized metaphor for the piece. I like the idea of challenging our conceptions of the boundaries between ourselves and the greater world, and the boundaries between species, but this just reads as fairly limp and unpassionate.
chelseanicoletta's review against another edition
It started off interestingly enough but about halfway through I became so bored. What was the point of this book?
floortje_fauna's review against another edition
4.0
Does our body have fixed boundaries? Hildyard proposes we have a second body connected to life on a planetary scale. An investigation into the connection of humans to the ecosystem at large, beyond the artificial divide between man and nature.
radiogaze's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
lighthearted
reflective
slow-paced
4.25