The Urban Bestiary: Encountering the Everyday Wild by Lyanda Lynn Haupt
By Lyanda Lynn Haupt
In THE city BESTIARY, acclaimed nature author Lyanda Lynn Haupt trips into the guts of the standard wild, the place coyotes, raccoons, chickens, hawks, and people stay in nearer proximity than ever earlier than. Haupt's observations convey compelling new inquiries to gentle: Whose "home" is that this? the place does the wild finish and town commence? And what distinction does it make to us as people dwelling our daily lives? during this totally unique mixture of technology, tale, fable, and memoir, Haupt attracts us into the key international of the wild creatures that live between us in our city neighborhoods, even if we're conscious of them or now not. With attractive illustrations and useful sidebars on every little thing from animal monitoring to opossum removing, THE city BESTIARY is a lyrical ebook that awakens ask yourself, pride, and recognize for the city wild, and our position inside it.
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