Landfill: Notes on Gull Watching and Trash Picking in the Anthropocene by Dee, Tim

Landfill: Notes on Gull Watching and Trash Picking in the Anthropocene

Over the past hundred years, gulls have been brought ashore by modernity. They now live not only...
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Landfill: Notes on Gull Watching and Trash Picking in the Anthropocene by Dee, Tim

Landfill: Notes on Gull Watching and Trash Picking in the Anthropocene

$66.08

Landfill: Notes on Gull Watching and Trash Picking in the Anthropocene

$66.08
Author: Tim Dee
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Over the past hundred years, gulls have been brought ashore by modernity. They now live not only on the coasts but in our slipstream following trawlers, barges, and garbage trucks. They are more our contemporaries than most birds, living their wild lives among us in towns and cities. In many ways they live as we do, walking the built-up world and grabbing a bite where they can. Yet this disturbs us. We've started fearing gulls for getting good at being among us. We see them as scavengers, not entrepreneurs; ocean-going aliens, not refugees. They are too big for the world they have entered. Their story is our story too.

Landfill is the original and compelling story of how in the Anthropocene we have learned about the natural world, named and catalogued it, and then colonized it, planted it, or filled it with our junk. While most other birds have gone in the opposite direction, hiding away from us, some vanishing forever, gulls continue to tell us how the wild can share our world. For these reasons Landfill is the nature book for our times, groundbreaking and genre-bending. Without nostalgia or eulogy, it kicks beneath the littered surface of the things to discover stranger truths.



Author: Tim Dee
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Company
Published: 03/12/2019
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.50h x 5.60w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781603589093


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/28/2019

About the Author
Dee, Tim: -

Tim Dee is a radio producer, television broadcaster, acclaimed author of Four Fields and The Running Sky, and editor of the anthology Ground Work.



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