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Item specifics

Condition
Good: A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including ...
ISBN
9781619022409

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Counterpoint Press
ISBN-10
1619022400
ISBN-13
9781619022409
eBay Product ID (ePID)
167916420

Product Key Features

Book Title
Field Notes from a Hidden City : an Urban Nature Diary
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Environmental Science (See Also Chemistry / Environmental), Animals / Wildlife, Seasons, Animals / General, Life Sciences / Zoology / General, Sociology / Urban
Publication Year
2014
Genre
Nature, Social Science, Science
Author
Esther Woolfson
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
22.6 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"Woolfson is an elegant, precise writer, and this transcendent memoir conveys exquisitely the vibrant world she inhabits."-- Kirkus (Starred Review) "Through richly crafted prose she depicts the city and its inhabitants, both human and non-human, as they manage their lives and come to grips with natural elements and each other...Her sections on living with rats, the lives of slugs, and of herring gulls are joys to read, and she is both passionate and poetic when she turns her attention to the human species...Woolfson's careful observations bring to our attention elements of the natural world often taken for granted."-- Publishers Weekly "Always tolerant and respectful, Woolfson offers both philosophical and scientific arguments for the conservation of all city life."-- Booklist, "Through richly crafted prose she depicts the city and its inhabitants, both human and non-human, as they manage their lives and come to grips with natural elements and each other...Her sections on living with rats, the lives of slugs, and of herring gulls are joys to read, and she is both passionate and poetic when she turns her attention to the human species...Woolfson's careful observations bring to our attention elements of the natural world often taken for granted."-- Publishers Weekly "Always tolerant and respectful, Woolfson offers both philosophical and scientific arguments for the conservation of all city life."-- Booklist, "Woolfson is an elegant, precise writer, and this transcendent memoir conveys exquisitely the vibrant world she inhabits."— Kirkus (Starred Review) "Through richly crafted prose she depicts the city and its inhabitants, both human and non-human, as they manage their lives and come to grips with natural elements and each other…Her sections on living with rats, the lives of slugs, and of herring gulls are joys to read, and she is both passionate and poetic when she turns her attention to the human species…Woolfson's careful observations bring to our attention elements of the natural world often taken for granted."— Publishers Weekly "Always tolerant and respectful, Woolfson offers both philosophical and scientific arguments for the conservation of all city life."— Booklist
Dewey Decimal
591.94123
Synopsis
Field Notes From a Hidden City is set against the background of the austere, grey and beautiful northeast Scottish city of Aberdeen. In it, Esther Woolfson examines the elements--geographic, atmospheric and environmental--which bring diverse life forms to live in close proximity in cities. Using the circumstances of her own life, house, garden and city, she writes of the animals who live among us: the birds--gulls, starlings, pigeons, sparrows and others--the rats and squirrels, the cetaceans, the spiders and the insects. In beautiful, absorbing prose, Woolfson describes the seasons, the streets and the quiet places of her city over the course of a year, which begins with the exceptional cold and snow of 2010. Influenced by her own long experience of corvids, she considers prevailing attitudes towards the natural world, urban and non-urban wildlife, the values we place on the lives of individual species and the ways in which man and creature live together in cities.

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