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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."

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Book category Books in English Lifestyle, sport & leisure Travel & holiday Places & peoples: general & pictorial works

• Full title: Why We Are Here
• Subtitle: Mobile and the Spirit of a Southern City
• Author: Edward O. Wilson, Alex Harris
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 240
• EAN: 9780871404701
• ISBN: 0871404702
• ID: 04748361
• Publisher: WW Norton & Co
• Weight: 1560 g
• Dimensions: 249 × 277 × 28 mm
• Date of publishing: 08. October 2012

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