Why We Are Here: Mobile and the Spirit of a Southern City - Couverture rigide

Wilson, Edward O.; Harris, Alex

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0871404702 ISBN 13 : 9780871404701

Editeur : Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2012

Synopsis

Entranced by Edward O. Wilson's mesmerizing evocation of his Southern childhood in The Naturalist and Anthill, Alex Harris approached the scientist about collaborating on a book about Wilson's native world of Mobile, Alabama. Perceiving that Mobile was a city small enough to be captured through a lens yet old enough to have experienced a full epic cycle of tragedy and rebirth, the photographer and the naturalist joined forces to capture the rhythms of this storied Alabama Gulf region through a swirling tango of lyrical words and breathtaking images. With Wilson tracing his family's history from the Civil War through the Depression--when mule-driven wagons still clogged the roads--to Mobile's racial and environmental struggles to its cultural triumphs today, and with Harris stunningly capturing the mood of a radically transformed city that has adapted to the twenty-first century, the book becomes a universal story, one that tells us where we all come from and why we are here.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Edward O. Wilson (1929-2021) was the author of more than thirty books, including Anthill, Letters to a Young Scientist, and The Conquest of Nature. The winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, Wilson was a professor emeritus at Harvard University and lived with his wife in Lexington, Massachusetts.

Born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1949, Alex Harris, acclaimed photographer, Duke University professor, and Pulitzer Prize finalist for River of Traps, lives in Durham, North Carolina.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0871404702
• ISBN 13: 9780871404701
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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