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- catalog abstract "Thoreau went to Walden Pond to live simply in the wild and contemplate his own place in the world by observing nature. Robert Sullivan went to a disused, garbage-filled alley in lower Manhattan to contemplate the city and its lesser-known inhabitants -- by observing the rat. Rats live in the world precisely where humans do; they survive on the effluvia of human society; they eat our garbage. While dispensing gruesomely fascinating rat facts and strangely entertaining rat stories -- everyone has one, it turns out -- 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. With a notebook and night-vision gear, he sits in the streamlike flow of garbage and searches for fabled rat kings, sets out to trap a rat, and eventually travels to the Midwest to learn about rats in Chicago, Milwaukee, and other cities of America. With tales of rat fights in the Gangs of New York era and stories of Harlem rent strike leaders who used rats to win basic rights for tenants, Sullivan looks deep into the largely unrecorded history of the city and its masses -- its herd-of-rats-like mob. Funny, wise, sometimes disgusting yet always compulsively readable, Rats earns its unlikely place alongside the great classics of nature writing.".
- catalog contributor b13191880.
- catalog created "2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2004.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [220]-242).".
- catalog description "Nature -- City rat -- Where I went to see rats and who sent me there -- Edens alley -- Brute neighbors -- Summer -- Unrepresented man -- Food -- Fights -- Garbage -- Exterminators -- Excellent -- Trapping -- Plague -- Winter -- Plague in America -- Catching -- Rat king -- Golden hill -- Spring -- Notes -- Acknowledgments.".
- catalog description "Thoreau went to Walden Pond to live simply in the wild and contemplate his own place in the world by observing nature. Robert Sullivan went to a disused, garbage-filled alley in lower Manhattan to contemplate the city and its lesser-known inhabitants -- by observing the rat. Rats live in the world precisely where humans do; they survive on the effluvia of human society; they eat our garbage. While dispensing gruesomely fascinating rat facts and strangely entertaining rat stories -- everyone has one, it turns out -- 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. With a notebook and night-vision gear, he sits in the streamlike flow of garbage and searches for fabled rat kings, sets out to trap a rat, and eventually travels to the Midwest to learn about rats in Chicago, Milwaukee, and other cities of America. With tales of rat fights in the Gangs of New York era and stories of Harlem rent strike leaders who used rats to win basic rights for tenants, Sullivan looks deep into the largely unrecorded history of the city and its masses -- its herd-of-rats-like mob. Funny, wise, sometimes disgusting yet always compulsively readable, Rats earns its unlikely place alongside the great classics of nature writing.".
- catalog extent "242 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "1582343853 (hardcover)".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Bloomsbury : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers,".
- catalog spatial "New York (State) New York".
- catalog subject "599.35/21756 22".
- catalog subject "Anecdotes.".
- catalog subject "Pests New York (State) New York Anecdotes.".
- catalog subject "QL795.R2 S85 2004".
- catalog subject "Rats New York (State) New York Anecdotes.".
- catalog subject "Rats New York (State) New York Popular Works.".
- catalog subject "Sullivan, Robert, 1963-".
- catalog subject "Urban pests New York (State) New York Anecdotes.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Nature -- City rat -- Where I went to see rats and who sent me there -- Edens alley -- Brute neighbors -- Summer -- Unrepresented man -- Food -- Fights -- Garbage -- Exterminators -- Excellent -- Trapping -- Plague -- Winter -- Plague in America -- Catching -- Rat king -- Golden hill -- Spring -- Notes -- Acknowledgments.".
- catalog title "Rats : observations on the history and habitat of the city's most unwanted inhabitants / Robert Sullivan.".
- catalog type "Anecdotes. fast".
- catalog type "text".