Field Notes from a Hidden City: An Urban Nature Diary - Couverture souple

Woolfson, Esther

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1847082769 ISBN 13 : 9781847082763

Editeur : Granta Books, 2014

Synopsis

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.

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Esther Woolfson grew up in Glasgow and studied Chinese at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Edinburgh University. Her acclaimed short stories have appeared in many anthologies and have been read on Radio 4. She is the author of Corvus: A Life with Birds, published by Granta Books. She has won prizes for both her stories and her nature writing. She has been the recipient of a Scottish Arts Council Travel Grant and a Writer's Bursary. Her latest book, Field Notes from a Hidden City (Granta Books), was shortlisted for the 2014 Thwaites Wainwright Prize for Nature and Travel Writing. She lives in Aberdeen.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Granta Books
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1847082769
• ISBN 13: 9781847082763
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 368
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