{"product_id":"suburban-safari-a-year-on-the-lawn-9781596910911","title":"Suburban Safari: A Year on the Lawn","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe suburban lawn sprouts a crop of contradictory myths. To some, it's a green oasis; to others, it's eco-purgatory. Science writer Hannah Holmes spent a year appraising the lawn through the eyes of the squirrels, crows, worms, and spiders who think of her backyard as their own. \u003ci\u003eSuburban Safari\u003c\/i\u003e is a fascinating and often hilarious record of her discoveries: that many animals adore the suburban environment, including bears and cougars venturing in from the woods; how plants, in their struggle for dominance, communicate with their own kind and battle other species; and that ways already exist for us to grow healthier, livelier lawns. \u003cbr\u003eHannah Holmes is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Secret Life of Dust\u003c\/i\u003e. Her science and travel writing has appeared in publications including the New York Times Magazine, Outside, Sierra, and the Los Angeles Times Magazine. She lives in South Portland, Maine. \"Witty environmentalists are as rare as shy politicians. But in Suburban Safari, Hannah Holmes laughs at herself while celebrating the wild kingdom she explores...Holmes is a science writer who doesn't lecture. She shares the joy of discovery about the secret lives of ants, spiders and crows.\"-\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"Holmes' backyard assumes strange, oversize proportions in the course of this fascinating book: the Bamboo Wilderness, the Insect Nation, the Freedom Lawn-who needs Mongolia?\"-\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"The writing is punchy and chock-full of strange and wonderful facts...Holmes makes it seem utterly commonplace to invite a chipmunk into one's home or spend the afternoon observing slugs.\"-\u003ci\u003eOregonian \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"Holmes sends even the most jaded urbanite out into the yard with a magnifying glass and a newly forged sense of awe...One of the most unusual, entertaining, effortlessly educational homages to nature since Euell Gibbons ate a pine tree.\"-Mary Roach, author of \u003ci\u003eStiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHannah Holmes\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of\u003ci\u003e The Secret Life of Dust.\u003c\/i\u003e Her science and travel writing has appeared in publications including the\u003ci\u003e New York Times Magazine, Outside, Sierra\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e Times Magazine.\u003c\/i\u003e She lives in South Portland, Maine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50474015293714,"sku":"9781596910911","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1ddb6bd3-cf3d-4264-9065-fd34f1c35a79.jpg?v=1730210991","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/suburban-safari-a-year-on-the-lawn-9781596910911","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}