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Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton is a nature book unlike others. The author has a chance encounter with a leveret which changes the course of her life. In the witnessing of it there are fascinating revelations of the hare in stories, history and mythology contrasted by her lived experience with the hare.
The book has a sense of patience and place about it, an allowance for difference and an intense tenderness. The hare is not anthropomorphised in any way and the dance of the relationship between hare and human, wild and tamed is a fascinating one.
The book has a sense of patience and place about it, an allowance for difference and an intense tenderness. The hare is not anthropomorphised in any way and the dance of the relationship between hare and human, wild and tamed is a fascinating one.