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The Hopes of Snakes : And Other Tales from the Urban Landscape
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The Hopes of Snakes : And Other Tales from the Urban Landscape Paperback - 2006

by Couturier, Lisa

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  • Title The Hopes of Snakes : And Other Tales from the Urban Landscape
  • Author Couturier, Lisa
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Printing
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 176
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Beacon Press, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
  • Date 2006-01-12
  • Features Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 5994056-6
  • ISBN 9780807085653 / 0807085650
  • Weight 0.42 lbs (0.19 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.52 x 5.58 x 0.43 in (21.64 x 14.17 x 1.09 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Urban animals - New York (State) - New York, Urban animals - Washington Metropolitan Area
  • Dewey Decimal Code 591.756

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From the publisher

Lisa Couturier's essays have appeared in literary anthologies, including the well-regarded American Nature Writing series and National Geographic's Heart of a Nation. She has worked as an environmental journalist and a magazine editor. She writes and teaches in the Washington, DC, area, where she lives with her family along the Potomac River.

Media reviews

Couturier's essays shine with her candor, her perception, and her affection for the creatures of our world. Whether the subject is a snake or a falcon or a crow named Edgar, these essays will both enlighten and give much reading pleasure.--Mary Oliver

"Couturier enters the terrain staked out by Annie Dillard in Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and Terry Tempest Williams in Refuge. In these moving essays, Couturier does not so much domesticate the wilderness as reveal the wildness within the domestic."--Publishers Weekly

"The essays combine nature writing, philosophy, theology and feminism . . . the writing is lyrical, even when Couturier explores the ecology of New York's subways."--USA Today

"Beautiful, intelligent, and literary . . . this book is a wondrous pleasure, yet it has the ability to shift the way you look at the natural world. The Hopes of Snakes belongs on the bookshelf next to Edward Abbey's The Serpents of Paradise and Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and, like those, is a book to savor, to know, to love and to share."--The Oregonian

Citations

  • Univ PR Books for Public Libry, 01/01/2006, Page 1

About the author

Lisa Couturier's essays have appeared in literary anthologies, including the well-regarded American Nature Writing series and National Geographic's Heart of a Nation. She has worked as an environmental journalist and a magazine editor. She writes and teaches in the Washington, DC, area, where she lives with her family along the Potomac River.

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