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Wild Nights: The Nature of New York City

By (author): Anne Matthews
Published by: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 01/Jul/2002
Format: Paperback - 224 pages
Product dimensions (mm): 197 x 130
ISBN-10: 0007123345
ISBN-13: 9780007123346
Categories:
> Social Studies: General

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Using New York as a focus, this title discusses how the natural world is reclaiming the planet's megacities. It is a walk on the wild side - offering a glimpse of the evolving urban landscape of the 21st century and of the creatures who will rule it. The author explains how the dynamics of change within the great metropoli (London, Shanghai, Calcutta, Tokyo, Rio, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Lagos, Kuala Lumpur, and so forth) are very similar, as are the tactics of the rodents, falcons, bears, birds, insects and amphibians who are finding alternative ways to thrive in each of these places. The book is not non-human at all - the key players are the individuals who devote their lives to monitoring, intercepting and ameliorating the lives of their feathered, furry or fanged friends; and then there's the silent majority of humans who think too little, if at all, about the massive changes their species is inflicting on their immediate environment.

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