Secret Life of the City - How Nature Thrives in the Urban Wild (Hardcover)

Come along on an informative, whirlwind tour of urban species—from intelligent crows to backyard lichens—and discover that you are surrounded by wild nature, even in your own backyard. When biologist Hanna Bjørgaas spots a fairy cup lichen in Antarctica, she is surprised to recognize it from her own backyard in Oslo. When she returns home, she embarks on a journey into urban nature, visiting city parks, cemeteries, and concrete rooftops to investigate the species that live in urban spaces. Along the way, she meets corvids, songbirds, ants, pigeons, bats, sparrows, fungi, and linden trees—and the experts who study their surprising abilities to survive, and thrive, in the city. As Bjørgaas discovers, urban nature—and its unique mixture of species that have never lived together before in Earth’s history—is valuable. More than half of the world’s human population lives in densely populated areas—and plants and animals have followed us into cities. Secret Life of the City invites us to pay more attention to the sounds, sights, and smells of urban nature right outside our door. A treasure trove of fascinating flora and fauna, this wonderful book offers a plea to save our city plants, animals, and fungi before we lose them, too.

General

Imprint:	Greystone Books,Canada
Country of origin:	Canada
Release date:	May 2023
Authors:	Hanna Hagen Bjørgaas
Translators:	Matt Bagguley
Dimensions:	215 x 139mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	272
ISBN-13:	978-1-77164-935-3
Categories:	Books > Sport & Leisure > Natural history, country life & pets > General
LSN:	1-77164-935-6
Barcode:	9781771649353

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