Creatures of Story and Song: Tracing Britain's Lost Species with Lee Raye (Reaktion, 2026)

Podcast: New Books in Environmental Studies · Marshall Poe

Opublikowano: 2026-10-04

Lee Raye joins Jana Byars to talk about their new book, Creatures of Story and Song: Tracing Britain's Lost Species (Reaktion, 2026). Discover why a beaver was said to bite off its own testicles, why the baleen of a right whale was prized by medieval knights or why you should give your crush the gift of a great auk. Creatures of Story and Song pieces together evocative legends, poems and historical accounts from a thousand years of history to remember fourteen of Britain’s extinct creatures. More than merely charting their demise, this book explores the rich legacy that such cr...