Over the Back Fence - Douglas L Murray

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Résumé :
A beautifully written journey back into a rural Napa Valley and all its natural wonders, now largely given way to the vineyards, country clubs and luxury homes of what is now one of America's most expensive places. An award winning scholar's coming-of-age memoir replete with gorgeous archival and contemporary color photographs of creatures and places of a bygone world. Childhood creeks and woodland haunts come alive through tales of youthful encounters with large black and white kingsnakes, elusive super-sized pileated woodpeckers and mountain lions lurking at the edge of the senses, all brought to light in a lyrical recollection of nature discovered over the back fence of the author's childhood home.

Biographie:
Douglas L. Murray is Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology, Colorado State University. He has published extensively on international development, agriculture, health and the environment, including Cultivating Crisis: The Human Cost of Pesticides in Latin America. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994; and Fair Trade: The challenges of transforming globalization. London and New York: Routledge, 2007; with co-editors Laura T. Raynolds and John Wilkerson. He has been a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Research and Writing Fellow in the Program on Peace and International Cooperation, and a Fulbright Senior Research Fellow. He is currently working on the second in a series of natural history memoirs, In Search of the Paper Nautilus - Life is a Beach Afterall, while relishing self-isolation in his mountain retreat on the Phantom Canyon Ranch. For communication with the author send email to dmurray@colostate.edu