Book description
In The Hopes of Snakes, Lisa Couturier celebrates the stories of forgotten, overlooked animals who have adapted nobly to city and suburban life in the Northeast. With sharp perception and deep humanity, she has found what is so remarkable in the nature we see most often and illuminated it like…
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1 author picked The Hopes of Snakes as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Couturier writes of a region I grew up in, namely the cities and suburbs of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic States.
I loved how she explored not just the often-ignored natural history of small forests, turkey vultures, crows, coyotes, and snakes (of course) but also the spirit and compassion that flies within tales of citizen science and wildlife restoration. Stories of home and family life nestle alongside a wild nature, often unseen, but always here.
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