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Rats: A Year with New York's Most Unwanted Inhabitants
by Sullivan, Robert
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Condition
- ISBN 10
- 1862077614
- ISBN 13
- 9781862077614
- Seller
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King River, Western Australia, Australia
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About This Item
Granta Publications, London, 2005. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. This is the first UK edition. Size: Octavo 8vo (standard book size). 243 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Scattered foxing, but text mostly clean. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. The cover has some crease marks. Surprisingly funny and compulsively readable, Rats is an unlikely account of a year spent in a garbage-strewn alley in lower Manhattan. Robert Sullivan - intrepid journalist, curious writer, fearful urban dweller - sets off to contemplate New York City and its lesser-known byways by observing the lowly rat. He discovers a world almost nobody knows. Sullivan spends the year with a notebook and night-vision goggles, hunting for fabled ratkings, trapping a rat of his own, and trying (and failing) to conquer his own fear of rats. He meets the exterminators, garbage men, and civic activists who play their part in the centuries-old war between human city-dweller and wild city rat. He travels to a bizarre Midwestern conference on rats that brings together the leading experts on rat history, behaviour and control (did you know that one pair of rats has the potential for 15,000 descendants in a year? that rats' teeth are harder than steel?) And he reveals the many ways rats' lives mirror those of humans. Sullivan's unusual and absorbing book earns a place alongside the classics of travel writing. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Animals & Birds; Travel & Places. ISBN: 1862077614. ISBN/EAN: 9781862077614. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3107. . 9781862077614
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- Bookseller
- Great Southern Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3107
- Title
- Rats: A Year with New York's Most Unwanted Inhabitants
- Author
- Sullivan, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1862077614
- ISBN 13
- 9781862077614
- Publisher
- Granta Publications
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2005
- Keywords
- BZDB137 travel, rats, new york, robert sullivan, Animals & Birds; Travel & Places. ISBN: 1862077614 EAN: 9781862077614 Sullivan, Robert Rats: A Year with New York's Most Unwanted Inhabitants
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