GoatMan: How I Took a Holiday from Being Human is a 2016 book by Thomas Thwaites. It was published by Princeton Architectural Press (ISBN 978-1616894054). It describes a project in which the author attempted to live as a goat in the Swiss mountains for several days, with prosthetic limbs and an artificial stomach.[2][3]
Author | Thomas Thwaites |
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Publisher | Princeton Architectural Press |
Publication date | 17 May 2016 |
Pages | 207[1] |
ISBN | 978-1616894054 |
The book includes photographs of the author dressed as a goat at various locations.[4]
Reception
editNew Statesman called it an "original, engaging and rather quirky book."[5]
Kirkus Reviews called it "A quirkily entertaining exploration of what it means to be human and what it might be like to be a goat."[6]
References
edit- ^ "When Being Human Got His Goat, This Designer Became One". NPR.org. Retrieved 12 July 2020.
- ^ Barkham, Patrick (15 May 2016). "No kidding: what I learned from becoming GoatMan". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
- ^ Graham, Chris (14 March 2018). "No kidding: Why Thomas Thwaites lived as a goat in Switzerland". The Telegraph. Retrieved 15 January 2017.
- ^ Romei, Stephen (2 April 2016). "A Pair of Ragged Claws: GoatMan Thomas Thwaites's animal instincts". The Australian. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
- ^ "The Dolittle delusion: what motivates human beings to live like animals?". www.newstatesman.com.
- ^ GOATMAN by Thomas Thwaites | Kirkus Reviews.