Funny, wise, sometimes disgusting but always compulsively readable, Rats earns its unlikely place alongside the great classics of nature writing. Bloomsbury, $17. Sullivan looks deep into the largely unrecorded history of the city and its masses-its herds-of-rats-like mob. Sullivan gets to know not just the beast but its friends and foes: the exterminators, the sanitation workers, the agitators and activists who have played their part in the centuries-old war between human city dweller and wild city rat. This project consisted of two parts: a track two dialogue between Japanese and American negotiators and their academic advisers, involved with meetings leading up to the 1992 Earth Summit and an international study examining values and their role in environmental policymaking in China, India, Japan, and the United States. In Rats, the critically acclaimed bestseller, Robert Sullivan spends a year investigating a rat-infested alley just a few blocks away from Wall Street. Booktopia has Rats, Observations on the History & Habitat of the Citys Most Unwanted Inhabitants by Robert Sullivan. Love them or loathe them, rats are here to stay-they are city dwellers as much as (or more than) we are, surviving on the effluvia of our society. A great way to get to know your neighbors! The resulting book weaves a forgotten history of the city together with plenty of gross-out rat facts to impress your friends. Robert Sullivan spent a year sitting in a New York alley observing rats every night so that you don't have to.
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