{"product_id":"city-beasts-fourteen-stories-of-uninvited-wildlife-9781594485879","title":"City Beasts: Fourteen Stories of Uninvited Wildlife","description":"\u003cb\u003eAll-new stories about the urban worlds where animals and humans fight, love, and find common ground, from the nationally bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eCod \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSalt\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Riverhead Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/03\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781594485879\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 4.90w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2015 pg. 36\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2015 pg. 26\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/09\/2015\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Mark Kurlansky","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42935621910709,"sku":"9781594485879","price":13.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_8b777d5b-f91e-4dcd-b5c5-2017c6c4fb8d.jpg?v=1688490748","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/city-beasts-fourteen-stories-of-uninvited-wildlife-9781594485879","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}