City beasts
Subtitle: fourteen stories of uninvited wildlife
By: Mark Kurlansky
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9781594485879
Subjects: Human-animal relationships; Animals; Fiction
Description: 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: title: Odd birds in New York --; title: Dominican Republic: twice bitten in San Pedro --; title: Miami: the alligator teeth of an unknown god --; title: The Gloucester whale cod --; title: Havana: a murder of crows --; title: Gloucester: the science of happiness in North Shore frogs --; title: Idaho locavores: a trilogy of the Sawtooth wolf --; title: New York nitpickers --; title: Haiti: the leopard of Ti Morne Joli --; title: Coyote --; title: San Sebastian: Begona and the bear.