Nature Obscura
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Nature Obscura

A City’s Hidden Natural WorldBy Kelly BrennerNarrated by Erica Sullivan
Length5h 52m

About this audiobook

A distinctive, funny, inspiring, and intimate dive into urban nature. With wonder and a sense of humor, Nature Obscura author Kelly Brenner aims to help us rediscover our connection to the natural world that is just outside our front door—we just need to know where to look. Through explorations of a rich and varied urban landscape, Brenner reveals the complex micro-habitats and surprising nature found in the middle of a city. In her hometown of Seattle, which has plowed down hills, cut through the land to connect fresh- and saltwater, and paved over much of the rest, she exposes a diverse range of strange and unknown creatures. From shore to wetland, forest to neighborhood park, and graveyard to backyard, Brenner uncovers how our land alterations have impacted nature, for good and bad, through the wildlife and plants that live alongside us, often unseen. These stories meld together, in the same way our ecosystems, species, and human history are interconnected across the urban environment.

Audiobook details

GenreScience and Nature
Length5 hrs 52 mins
Narrated byErica Sullivan
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateMay 31, 2020
LanguageEnglish

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