City Beasts

City Beasts
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 322
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ISBN-10 : 9780698186965
ISBN-13 : 0698186966
Rating : 4/5 (966 Downloads)

Book Synopsis City Beasts by : Mark Kurlansky

Download or read book City Beasts written by Mark Kurlansky and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All-new stories about the urban worlds where animals and humans fight, love, and find common ground, from the nationally bestselling author of Cod and Salt. In these stories, Mark Kurlansky journeys to his familiar haunts like New York’s Central Park or Miami’s Little Havana but with an original, earthy, and adventurous perspective. From baseball players in the Dominican Republic to Basque separatists in Spain to a restaurant owner in Cuba, from urban coyotes to a murder of crows, Kurlansky travels the worlds of animals and their human counterparts, revealing moving and hilarious truths about our connected existence. In the end, he illuminates how closely our worlds are aligned, how humans really are beasts, susceptible to their basest instincts, their wildest dreams, and their artful survival.

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