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A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places

English

By (author): Christopher Brown

A genre-bending blend of naturalism, memoir, and social manifesto for rewilding the city, the self, and society.

A Natural History of Empty Lots is a genre-defying work of nature writing, literary nonfiction, and memoir that explores what happens when nature and the city intersect.

During the real estate crash of the late 2000s, Christopher Brown purchased an empty lot in an industrial section of Austin, Texas. The property-abandoned and full of litter and debris-was an unlikely site for a home. Brown had become fascinated with these empty lots around Austin, so-called ruined spaces once used for agriculture and industry awaiting their redevelopment. He discovered them to be teeming with natural activity, and embarked on a twenty-year project to live in and document such spaces. There, in our most damaged landscapes, he witnessed the remarkable resilience of wild nature, and how we can heal ourselves by healing the Earth.

Beautifully written and philosophically hard-hitting, A Natural History of Empty Lots offers a new lens on human disruption and nature, offering a sense of hope among the edgelands.

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Will deliver when available. Publication date 09 Jan 2025

Product Details
  • Dimensions: 155 x 235mm
  • Publication Date: 09 Jan 2025
  • Publisher: Workman Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781643263366

About Christopher Brown

Christopher Brown is the Philip K. Dick World Fantasy and John W. Campbell Award-nominated author of the novels Tropic of Kansas Rule of Capture and Failed State. Also an accomplished lawyer he has worked on two Supreme Court confirmation hearings led the technology corporate practice of a major American law firm and been the General Counsel of two public companies.

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