9780374120115-0374120110-Central Park in the Dark: More Mysteries of Urban Wildlife

Central Park in the Dark: More Mysteries of Urban Wildlife

ISBN-13: 9780374120115
ISBN-10: 0374120110
Edition: First Edition
Author: Marie Winn
Publication date: 2008
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover 320 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780374120115
ISBN-10: 0374120110
Edition: First Edition
Author: Marie Winn
Publication date: 2008
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover 320 pages

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Central Park in the Dark: More Mysteries of Urban Wildlife (ISBN-13: 9780374120115 and ISBN-10: 0374120110), written by authors Marie Winn, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2008. With an overall rating of 4.4 stars, it's a notable title among other Animals (Zoology, Biological Sciences, Fauna, Nature & Ecology) books. You can easily purchase or rent Central Park in the Dark: More Mysteries of Urban Wildlife (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Animals books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.57.

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Love and loss, life and death, among the nighttime creatures of the city that never sleeps








Like her bestseller Red-Tails in Love, Marie Winn’s Central Park in the Dark explores a once-hidden world in a series of interlocking narratives about the extraordinary denizens, human and animal, of an iconic American park. Her beguiling account of a city’s lakes and woodlands at night takes the reader through the cycle of seasons as experienced by nocturnal active beasts (raccoons, bats, black skimmers, and sleeping robins among them), insects (moths, wasps, fireflies, crickets), and slugs (in all their unexpected poetical randiness). Winn does not neglect her famous protagonists Pale Male and Lola, the hawks that captivated readers years ago, but this time she adds an exciting narrative about thirty-eight screech owls in Central Park and their lives, loves, and tragedies there. An eye-popping amount of natural history is packed into this entertaining book—on bird physiology, spiders, sunsets, dragonflies, meteor showers, and the nature of darkness. But the human drama is never forgotten, for Central Park at night boasts a floating population not only of lovers, dog walkers, and policemen but of regulars young and old who, like Winn, hope to unlock the secrets of urban nature. These “night people” are drawn into a peculiar kind of intimacy. While exploring the astonishing variety of wildlife in the city park, they end up revealing more of their inner lives than they expected.








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