The Seattle Street-smart Naturalist: Field Notes From Seattle - Couverture souple

Williams, David B.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1558688595 ISBN 13 : 9781558688599

Editeur : West Winds Press, 2005

Synopsis

Back to the city, or back to nature? Seattle author David Williams shows us how we can get the best of both. Botany and bugs, geology and geese, and creeks and crows; living in a major city doesn't have to separate us from the natural world. Stepping away from a guidebook format, Williams presents the reader with a series of essays and maps that weave personal musings, bits of humor, natural history observations, and scientific data into a multi-textured perspective of life in the city--descriptions of his journeys as a naturalist in an urban landscape. Williams addresses questions that an observant person asks in an urban environment. What did Seattle look like before Europeans got here? How does the area's geologic past affect us? Why have some animals thrived and other languished? How are we affected by the species with whom we share the urban environment and how do we affect them? This book captures all of the distinctive flavors of the Emerald City, urban and natural.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: West Winds Press
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1558688595
• ISBN 13: 9781558688599
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 226
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible