Why We Are Here: Mobile and the Spirit of a Southern City

by Alex Harris and Edward O. Wilson

Book Overview

Entranced by Edward O. Wilson's mesmerizing evocation of his Southern childhood in The Naturalist and Anthill, Alex Harris approached the scientist about collaborating on a book about Wilson's native world of Mobile, Alabama. Perceiving that Mobile was a city small enough to be captured through a lens yet old enough to have experienced a full epic cycle of tragedy and rebirth, the photographer and the naturalist joined forces to capture the rhythms...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871404702
• ISBN13: 9780871404701
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 3.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 11.1" x 9.7"