Edward O. Wilson, Alex Harris

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

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• New
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 282mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 1560g
• ISBN-13: 9780871404701
• ISBN-10: 0871404702
• Artikelnr.: 35337953

Autorenporträt

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.