Central Park in the Dark: More Mysteries of Urban Wildlife

by Marie Winn

Book Overview

As in her bestseller Red-Tails in Love, Winn explores a once-hidden world in a series of interlocking narratives about the extraordinary denizens, human and animal, of an iconic American park. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374120110
• ISBN13: 9780374120115
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Clever informative book

This book is very well written and extremely infomative, making one want to go out immediately to Central Park to see all the wildlife!

Wish I were a New Yorker!

I wish I were living right next to Central Park in NYC! Unfortunately I am not as I live in far-away Britanny, France just across the Atlantic Pond beyond Long Island but was a pleasure to be reading Central park in the Dark ! Although my English is sometimes defective as I am not practicing the language too often on this side of the Ocean, I was able, to my great delight, to enjoy the numerous puns from Marie Winn! Beside being extremely humorous the text is full of information regarding the unexpected and most extraordinary wildlife of Central Park. Reading the book makes me feel really nostalgic about my past visits to the City as I missed Central Park's weird and wild animal population! Hawks, owls, skimmers, raccoons and giant moths! Myself a birder with several hundred species under my wings was astonished by learning how glistening is this natural treasure lying right in the heart of the Apple Megapolis! What a pity my English cannot truly reflect my thoughts! But I assume a lot of readers will have the required knowledge and will jump on this marvelous book. Once you read it you cannot think anymore of Central park as a "dark place" but to the contrary, it will appear now as a shining jewel in the city. Lucky New Yorkers! Please, forgive my not-too-good English!

captures the excitement of the chase

I haven't read this author's other books, but after reading this I definitely will! I'm a lifelong birder, and her vivid descriptions of different "chases" and the sense of community and fellowship when she meets up with other avid watchers is excactly why I find birding so much fun. I particularly appreciate that her interest in birding leads her to explore other curiosities such as moths. A very engaging and charming book.