City Beasts: Fourteen Stories of Uninvited Wildlife

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 02/03/2015
ISBN: 9781594485879
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.70h x 4.90w x 1.00d

Review Citations: Booklist 01/01/2015 pg. 36
New York Times Book Review 02/01/2015 pg. 26
Publishers Weekly 02/09/2015