Suburban Safari: A Year on the Lawn

The suburban lawn sprouts a crop of contradictory myths. To some, it's a green oasis; to others,...
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Author: Hannah Holmes
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Suburban Safari: A Year on the Lawn by Holmes, Hannah

Suburban Safari: A Year on the Lawn

$47.95

Suburban Safari: A Year on the Lawn

$47.95
Author: Hannah Holmes
Format: Paperback
Language: English

The suburban lawn sprouts a crop of contradictory myths. To some, it's a green oasis; to others, it's eco-purgatory. Science writer Hannah Holmes spent a year appraising the lawn through the eyes of the squirrels, crows, worms, and spiders who think of her backyard as their own. Suburban Safari is a fascinating and often hilarious record of her discoveries: that many animals adore the suburban environment, including bears and cougars venturing in from the woods; how plants, in their struggle for dominance, communicate with their own kind and battle other species; and that ways already exist for us to grow healthier, livelier lawns.
Hannah Holmes is the author of The Secret Life of Dust. Her science and travel writing has appeared in publications including the New York Times Magazine, Outside, Sierra, and the Los Angeles Times Magazine. She lives in South Portland, Maine. Witty environmentalists are as rare as shy politicians. But in Suburban Safari, Hannah Holmes laughs at herself while celebrating the wild kingdom she explores...Holmes is a science writer who doesn't lecture. She shares the joy of discovery about the secret lives of ants, spiders and crows.-USA Today
Holmes' backyard assumes strange, oversize proportions in the course of this fascinating book: the Bamboo Wilderness, the Insect Nation, the Freedom Lawn-who needs Mongolia?-Los Angeles Times
The writing is punchy and chock-full of strange and wonderful facts...Holmes makes it seem utterly commonplace to invite a chipmunk into one's home or spend the afternoon observing slugs.-Oregonian
Holmes sends even the most jaded urbanite out into the yard with a magnifying glass and a newly forged sense of awe...One of the most unusual, entertaining, effortlessly educational homages to nature since Euell Gibbons ate a pine tree.-Mary Roach, author of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers



Author: Hannah Holmes
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Published: 03/01/2006
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.22h x 5.54w x 0.72d
ISBN: 9781596910911


Review Citation(s):
Foreword 07/01/2005 pg. 1

About the Author

Hannah Holmes is the author of The Secret Life of Dust. Her science and travel writing has appeared in publications including the New York Times Magazine, Outside, Sierra, and the Los Angeles Times Magazine. She lives in South Portland, Maine.




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