Have you encountered Craig Childs' stuff? I've read... roughly 2.1 of his books (The Animal Dialogues and Finders Keepers), but I've enjoyed what I read. In particular, The Animal Dialogues is a series of reflections on interactions he'd had with wild animals (even when the interaction is limited to following a trail for a while) and musings and research and a lot of interesting zoological and ethological notes on them. Some of which fell into that vaguely creepy, numenous hinterland of "This is outside of my conception of the way in which the world operates, but not very far outside, so I had a pleasant frission of Oh... I hadn't thought that was possible.
(Finders Keepers is a fascinating-to-me exploration of the thorny practical and moral issues of archaeology, relic hunting, relic trades, and relic obsessions, and the issue of just who owns the past and what our relationship to its leavings should be.)
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Date: 2021-08-19 11:04 pm (UTC)(Finders Keepers is a fascinating-to-me exploration of the thorny practical and moral issues of archaeology, relic hunting, relic trades, and relic obsessions, and the issue of just who owns the past and what our relationship to its leavings should be.)