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Rats - Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants

By: Bloomsbury

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Reference Books (Bloomsbury)

Last Stocked on 9/22/2020

Product Info

Title
Rats - Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants
Publisher
Category
Author
Robert Sullivan
Publish Year
2005
Pages
256
Dimensions
5.5x8.25x1"
NKG Part #
2147630086
Type
Softcover

Description

Love them or loathe them, rats are here to stay-they are city dwellers as much as (or more than) we are, surviving on the effluvia of our society. In Rats, the critically acclaimed bestseller, Robert Sullivan spends a year investigating a rat-infested alley just a few blocks away from Wall Street. Sullivan gets to know not just the beast but its friends and foes: the exterminators, the sanitation workers, the agitators and activists who have played their part in the centuries-old war between human city dweller and wild city rat.

Sullivan looks deep into the largely unrecorded history of the city and its masses-its herds-of-rats-like mob. Funny, wise, sometimes disgusting but always compulsively readable, Rats earns its unlikely place alongside the great classics of nature writing.