Why We Are Here: Mobile and the Spirit of a Southern City by Wilson, Edward O.

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...
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Author: Edward O. Wilson
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Language: English
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Why We Are Here: Mobile and the Spirit of a Southern City by Wilson, Edward O.

Why We Are Here: Mobile and the Spirit of a Southern City

$105.55

Why We Are Here: Mobile and the Spirit of a Southern City

$105.55
Author: Edward O. Wilson
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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-driven wagons still clogged the roads--to Mobile's racial and environmental struggles to its cultural triumphs today, and with Harris stunningly capturing the mood of a radically transformed city that has adapted to the twenty-first century, the book becomes a universal story, one that tells us where we all come from and why we are here.

Author: Edward O. Wilson, Alex Harris
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Published: 10/08/2012
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 3.44lbs
Size: 9.67h x 11.11w x 1.14d
ISBN: 9780871404701


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/14/2012 pg. 53

About the Author
Wilson, Edward O.: - Edward O. Wilson is the author of more than thirty books, including Anthill, Letters to a Young Scientist, and The Conquest of Nature. The winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, Wilson is a professor emeritus at Harvard University and lives with his wife in Lexington, Massachusetts.Harris, Alex: - Born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1949, Alex Harris, acclaimed photographer, Duke University professor, and Pulitzer Prize finalist for River of Traps, lives in Durham, North Carolina.

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