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City Creatures: Animal Encounters in the Chicago Wilderness
By Gavin Van Horn & David Aftandilian
Publishers Summary:
The book is organized into six sections, each highlighting one type of place in which people might encounter animals in the city and suburbs. For example, schoolyard chickens and warrior wasps populate “Backyard Diversity,” live giraffes loom at the zoo and taxidermy-in-progress pheasants fascinate museum-goers in “Animals on Display,” and a chorus of deep-freeze frogs awaits in “Water Worlds.” Although the book is rooted in Chicago’s landscape, nature lovers from cities around the globe will find a wealth of urban animal encounters that will open their senses to a new world that has been there all along. Its powerful combination of insightful narratives, numinous poetry, and full-color art throughout will help readers see the city—and the creatures who share it with us—in an entirely new light.
- ISBN
- 9780226192895 9780226289298
- Publisher
- Univ. of Chicago
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Reviewed on October 15, 2015 | Science and Technology
Van Horn (director, Cultures of Conservation, Ctr. for Humans and Nature; City Creatures blog) and Aftandilian (anthropology, Texas Christian Univ.; editor, What Are the Animals to Us?) have compiled essays, poetry, and art celebrating Chicago wilderness from suburban and city backyards to zoos, museums, and protected areas such as parks and forest preserves. These expressions mingle in six sections: "backyard diversity," "neighborhood associations," "animals on display,"...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
