Bibliograph

City beasts, fourteen stories of uninvited wildlife, Mark Kurlansky

Type

Label

City beasts, fourteen stories of uninvited wildlife, Mark Kurlansky

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

short stories

Main title

City beasts

Oclc number

881888290

Responsibility statement

Mark Kurlansky

Sub title

fourteen stories of uninvited wildlife

Summary

In these stories, Mark Kurlansky journeys to his familiar haunts like New York's Central Park or Miami's Little Havana but with an original, earthy, and adventurous perspective. From baseball players in the Dominican Republic to Basque separatists in Spain to a restaurant owner in Cuba, from urban coyotes to a murder of crows, Kurlansky travels the worlds of animals and their human counterparts, revealing moving and hilarious truths about our connected existence. In the end, he illuminates how closely our worlds are aligned, how humans really are beasts, susceptible to their basest instincts, their wildest dreams, and their artful survival

Table Of Contents

Odd birds in New York -- Dominican Republic: twice bitten in San Pedro -- Miami: the alligator teeth of an unknown god -- The Gloucester whale cod -- Havana: a murder of crows -- Gloucester: the science of happiness in North Shore frogs -- Idaho locavores: a trilogy of the Sawtooth wolf -- New York nitpickers -- Haiti: the leopard of Ti Morne Joli -- Coyote -- San Sebastián: Begoála and the bear

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