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GoatMan: How I Took a Holiday from Being Human

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GoatMan: How I Took a Holiday from Being Human
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Author Thomas Thwaites
PublisherPrinceton Architectural Press
Publication date
17 May 2016
Pages207 [1]
ISBN 978-1616894054

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]

The book includes photographs of the author dressed as a goat at various locations. [4]

Reception

New 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]

Thwaites was awarded the 2016 Ig Nobel Prize in the biology category (jointly, with Charles Foster). [7]

References

  1. ↑ "When Being Human Got His Goat, This Designer Became One". NPR.org. Retrieved 12 July 2020.
  2. ↑ Barkham, Patrick (15 May 2016). "No kidding: what I learned from becoming GoatMan". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
  3. ↑ Graham, Chris (14 March 2018). "No kidding: Why Thomas Thwaites lived as a goat in Switzerland". The Telegraph. Retrieved 15 January 2017.
  4. ↑ Romei, Stephen (2 April 2016). "A Pair of Ragged Claws: GoatMan Thomas Thwaites's animal instincts". The Australian. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
  5. ↑ "The Dolittle delusion: what motivates human beings to live like animals?". www.newstatesman.com.
  6. ↑ GOATMAN by Thomas Thwaites | Kirkus Reviews.
  7. ↑ "Ig Nobel win for Alpine 'goat man'". BBC News . 2016-09-22. Retrieved 2025-03-24.
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