Why We Are Here: Mobile and the Spirit of a Southern City
Entranced by Edward O. Wilson's mesmerizing evocation of his Southern childhood in The Naturalist and Anthill, Alex Harris approached the scientist about collaborating on a book about Wilson's native world of Mobile, Alabama. Perceiving that Mobile was a city small enough to be captured through a lens yet old enough to have experienced a full epic cycle of tragedy and rebirth, the photographer and the naturalist joined forces to capture the rhythms of this storied Alabama Gulf region through a swirling tango of lyrical words and breathtaking images. With Wilson tracing his family's history from the Civil War through the Depression-when mule-d…
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Weitere Autoren: Harris, Alex
- ISBN: 978-0-87140-470-1
- EAN: 9780871404701
- Produktnummer: 12716667
- Verlag: Liveright Pub Corp
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Masse: H24.6 cm x B28.2 cm x D2.9 cm 1'560 g
- Auflage: New
- Gewicht: 1560
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Edward O. Wilson is the author of more than thirty books, including Anthill, a novel, and The Meaning of Human Existence, a finalist for the National Book Award. The winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, Wilson is a professor emeritus at Harvard University and lives with his wife, Irene, in Lexington, Massachusetts.
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