Field Notes from a Hidden City: An Urban Nature Diary

ISBN: 1619022400

Author: Woolfson, Esther

Condition: Used

Field Notes From a Hidden City is set against the background of the austere, grey and beautiful northeast Scottish city of Aberdeen. In it, Esther Woolfson examines the elementsgeographic, atmospheric and environmentalwhich bring diverse life forms to live in close proximity in cities. Using the circumstances of her own life, house, garden and city, she writes of the animals who live among us: the birdsgulls, starlings, pigeons, sparrows and othersthe rats and squirrels, the cetaceans, the spiders and the insects.In beautiful, absorbing prose, Woolfson describes the seasons, the streets and the quiet places of her city over the course of a year, which begins with the exceptional cold and snow of 2010. Influenced by her own long experience of corvids, she considers prevailing attitudes towards the natural world, urban and non-urban wildlife, the values we place on the lives of individual species and the ways in which man and creature live together in cities.