Field Notes From a Hidden City
Author | : Esther Woolfson |
Publisher | : Granta Books |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2013-03-07 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781847087577 |
ISBN-13 | : 1847087574 |
Rating | : 4/5 (574 Downloads) |
Download or read book Field Notes From a Hidden City written by Esther Woolfson and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the background of austere and beautiful Aberdeen, Woolfson observes the seasons, the streets and the quiet places of her city over the course of a year. She considers the geographic, atmospheric and environmental elements which bring diverse life forms together in close proximity, and in absorbing prose writes of the animals among us: the birds, the rats and squirrels, the spiders and the insects. Her close examination of the natural world leads her to question our prevailing attitudes to urban and non-urban wildlife, and to look again at the values we place on the lives of individual species.