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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.

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 357
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781847082756
  • Settings
  • Aberdeen, Scotland
  • Genres
  • nature, science, animals, scotland, environment, memoir
  • Release date
  • 2013