Landfill : notes on gull watching and trash picking in the Anthropocene
Dee, Tim, 1961-2018
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"Over the past hundred years, gulls have been brought ashore by modernity. They now live not only on the coasts but in our slipstream following trawlers, barges, and garbage trucks. They are more our contemporaries than most birds, living their wild lives among us in towns and cities. In many ways they live as we do, walking the built-up world and grabbing a bite where they can. Yet this disturbs us. We've started fearing gulls for getting good at being among us. We see them as scavengers, not entrepreneurs; ocean-going aliens, not refugees. They are too big for the world they have entered. Their story is our story too. Landfill is the original and compelling story of how in the Anthropocene we have learned about the natural world, named and catalogued it, and then colonized it, planted it, or filled it with our junk. While most other birds have gone in the opposite direction, hiding away from us, some vanishing forever, gulls continue to tell us how the wild can share our world. For these reasons Landfill is the nature book for our times, groundbreaking and genre-bending. Without nostalgia or eulogy, it kicks beneath the littered surface of the things to discover stranger truths."
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Imprint:
White River Junction, VT : Chelsea Green Publishing, 2018
Collation:
236 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-232)
Contents:
Checklist -- White goods -- Our mutual friends -- Big Bird -- A peck of dirt -- Lump -- The birds -- London labour and London poor -- Old birds, old books -- Junk bonds -- Needs -- Jonathan Livingston Seagull -- Into it -- Talk to the animals -- Fly tip -- Chayka -- White gods -- Basil -- Age of iron -- Split -- Funes the memorious -- Night watch -- The family line.
ISBN:
9781603589093
Dewey class:
598.338
Language:
English
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BRN:
356673
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton Library | Adult Non Fiction - Animals | 598.338 DEE | Available |