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Suburban Safari: A Year on the Lawn |
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Saturday, 04 March 2006 |
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Suburban Safari: A Year on the Lawn
1/1/2006
SciTech Book News
By Hannah Holmes
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2005, 262 pages, $24.95, Hardcover
Science writer Holmes spent a year investigating her suburban lawn with the
same sense of discovery with which she has explored natural wonders in exotic
locales. And natural wonders are indeed revealed within the lawn: the complex
and interconnected lives of humming birds, crows, insects, chipmunks,
squirrels, earthworms, grasses, clover, trees, and more. The book is divided
into sections by season, and Holmes's enlightening and entertaining
observations are supplemented with information from the biologists, botanists,
entomologists, and ecologists she invites over.
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