Anima - A Wild Pastoral

''A classic for our times'' MONIQUE ROFFEY ''Haunting, beautiful... Anima will live with me for a long time'' CAL FLYN ''A book that mesmerises with its sense of adventure and epic sweep, this is creative non-fiction at its best'' GUARDIAN Over the course of one summer, Kapka Kassabova lives with perhaps the last true pastoralists in Europe. She joins the epic seasonal movement of vast herds of sheep, along with shepherds and dogs, to find pasture in the mountains. As she becomes attuned to the sacrifices inherent in this isolated existence, Kassabova finds herself drawn deeper into the tangled relationships at the heart of this small community. Anima is a spellbinding portrayal of the human-animal interdependence in pastoral life, and a plea for a different way of living - one where we might all begin to heal our broken relationship with the natural world. ''An extraordinary work of exploration, both inner and outer. It should be required reading for everyone thinking about our human environment: which is to say, all of us'' THE TABLET

Product details

• Authors: Kapka Kassabova, Kassabova Kapka
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 12.06.2025
• EAN: 9781529933413
• ISBN: 978-1-5299-3341-3
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 197 mm x 23 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Sustainable Development, Sustainability, SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, NATURE / Animals / General, TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, Climate Change, Political Ideologies, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, Mountains, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Mountains, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, TRAVEL / Europe / Eastern, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Travel writing, Bulgaria, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Farm & working animals, Social and cultural history, Social and cultural anthropology, Sustainable agriculture, Farm and working animals: general interest, Southeast Europe, The Balkans, Green politics / ecopolitics / environmentalism, Mountains and uplands