Hannah Holmes

Suburban Safari (eBook, ePUB)

A Year on the Lawn

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The suburban lawn sprouts a crop of contradictory myths. To some, it's a green oasis; to others, it's eco-purgatory. Science writer Hannah Holmes spent a year appraising the lawn through the eyes of the squirrels, crows, worms, and spiders who think of her backyard as their own. Suburban Safari is a fascinating and often hilarious record of her discoveries: that many animals adore the suburban environment, including bears and cougars venturing in from the woods; how plants, in their struggle for dominance, communicate with their own kind and battle other species; and that ways already exist for us to grow healthier, livelier lawns.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781596918115
• Artikelnr.: 56780602

Autorenporträt

Hannah Holmes is the author of The Secret Life of Dust. Her science and travel writing has appeared in publications including the New York Times Magazine, Outside, Sierra, and the Los Angeles Times Magazine. She lives in Maine.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Spring
1: A Flood of Feathers
2: Bugs in My Belfry
3: Lawn of Many Waters
Summer
4: I Love You, Now Spit Out My Azalea
5: The Army of Earth Movers
6: The Freedom Lawn
Fall
7: Before
8: The Stately and Scheming Trees
9: Sifting Secrets from the Air
Winter
10: The Thirteen Coldest Days of the Year
11: Melting Pot Blues
12: Strange Family
References
Acknowledgments