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A globe-spanning memoir of wildlife, belonging, and the profound connections that bind humans to the natural world.
What if the animals we share this planet with are more than species to protect or creatures to admire? What if they are family?
In Wild Kin: Embracing Our Animal Family, Amanda Mander travels across continents in search of a deeper understanding of humanity's relationship with the wild. From orangutans in Southeast Asia and rhinos in Africa to penguins, polar bears, elephants, and wolves, her journey takes her into the lives of remarkable animals and the people working to protect them.
Along the way, as she confronts questions of belonging, responsibility, loss, and hope,
Amanda discovers that the boundary between human and wild animals is far less distinct than we often imagine.
Part travel memoir, part wildlife journey, and part personal awakening, Wild Kin invites readers to see the natural world through new eyes. Amanda's emotionally candid storytelling reveals not only the beauty and vulnerability of the creatures she encounters, but also the ways they reshape her understanding of connection, and community. She invites readers into a world still capable of intimacy with the wild, if we're willing to pay attention.
For readers of Jane Goodall, Sy Montgomery, and other nature writers who explore the intersection of wildlife, conservation, and the human spirit, Wild Kin is a moving reminder that wild creatures are not symbols or spectacle, but relatives we should recognize, respect, and claim as part of our shared family.
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Amanda Mander is a memoirist and nature writer. Her work explores humanity's relationship with our wild kin. Her latest platform is her Substack, Wild Kin News, where she delivers thoughtful essays on conservation, animal behavior, and wildlife experiences. Raised by an American father and an Italian mother, and shaped by time living in Indonesia, Sweden, Italy, and New Zealand, she brings a global, cross-cultural lens to her writing on wildlife and place. She now lives in the Pacific Northwest, where she focuses on supporting her wild neighbors but continues to travel in pursuit of ethical, conservation-minded encounters with wild animals. Her debut memoir, Wild Kin: Embracing Our Animal Family, weaves personal narrative with conservation reporting to ask what it would take for us to remember we are kin to the animals we've grown estranged from.
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Wild Kin: Embracing Our Animal Family opens with an admission: that somewhere in adulthood, Amanda Mander stopped feeling like an animal among animals. Raised by an American father and an Italian mother, and shaped by a life scattered across Indonesia, Sweden, Italy, and New Zealand, she found herself strangely illiterate in the language of the wild world around her-a fluency the book argues most of us have quietly lost and can just as quietly recover.The memoir moves through a series of direct encounters with wild animals-among them orangutans, rhinos, and penguins-each one anchoring a chapter that braids on-the-ground conservation reportage with personal memory and reflection. In the presence of a species under pressure from human expansion, Amanda finds herself contemplating how conservation works and how often humans relate to wild animals from a distance.Each encounter is also an ethical reckoning. Wild Kin doesn't romanticize wildlife tourism-it interrogates it, including the author's own complicity, asking what it actually means to seek out an animal in her home rather than simply consume the experience of having done so. That tension between longing and responsibility runs underneath the book's warmer, more lyrical passages, keeping the sense of wonder honest rather than sentimental.As the book progresses, the scale of the story narrows-from remote conservation sites to Amanda's own backyard in the Pacific Northwest, where she supports her wild neighbors. That shift is deliberate: the book's closing movement argues that kinship with the wild isn't only found on the other side of the world, but can be practiced, in miniature, wherever a person is willing to pay attention. Seller Inventory # 9798996836109