The Street-Smart Naturalist: Field Notes from Seattle

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Back to the city, or back to nature? Seattle writer David Williams shows us how we will get the most efficient of both. Botany and bugs, geology and geese, and creeks and crows; living in an important city doesn’t have to separate us from the flora and fauna. Stepping away from a guidebook format, Williams presents the reader with a series of essays and maps that weave personal musings, bits of humor, natural history observations, and scientific data into a multi-textured point of view of life in the city–descriptions of his journeys as a naturalist in an urban landscape. Williams addresses questions that an observant person asks in an urban environment. What did Seattle seem like before Europeans got here? How does the area’s geologic past have an effect on us? Why have some animals thrived and other languished? How are we suffering from the species with whom we share the urban environment and how do we have an effect on them? This book captures the entire distinctive flavors of the Emerald City, urban and natural.
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