Field Notes from a Hidden City: An Urban Nature Diary
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.
- Author
- Esther Woolfson
- Format
- hardcover
- Pages
- 357
- Publisher
- Granta Books
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9781847082756
- Settings
- Aberdeen, Scotland
- Genres
- nature, science, animals, scotland, environment, memoir
- Release date
- 2013
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