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"Witty, imaginative, and powerful.Holmes is a Rachel Carson for 21st-century suburbia. A""Witty, imaginative, and powerful...Holmes is a Rachel Carson for 21st-century suburbia. A""Holmes' backyard assumes strange, oversize proportions in the course of this fascinating book: the Bamboo Wilderness, the Insect Nation, the Freedom Lawn--who needs Mongolia?""The writing is punchy and chock-full of strange and wonderful facts...Holmes makes it seem utterly commonplace to invite a chipmunk into one's home or spend the afternoon observing slugs.""Witty environmentalists are as rare as shy politicians. But in "Suburban Safari," Hannah Holmes laughs at herself while celebrating the wild kingdom she explores...Holmes is a science writer who doesn't lecture. She shares the joy of discovery about the secret lives of ants, spiders and crows.""Holmes sends even the most jaded urbanite out into the yard with a magnifying glass and a newly forged sense of awe One of the most unusual, entertaining, effortlessly educational homages to nature since Euell Gibbons ate a pine tree."--Mary Roach, author of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers"
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About the Author
Hannah Holmes is the author of The Secret Life of Dust. Her science and travel writing has appeared in publications including the New York Times Magazine, Outside, Sierra, and the Los Angeles Times Magazine. She lives in South Portland, Maine.
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Product details
Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA; Reprint edition (March 1, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9781596910911
ISBN-13: 978-1596910911
ASIN: 1596910917
Product Dimensions:
5.5 x 0.6 x 8.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
3.9 out of 5 stars
34 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#1,384,011 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Ms. Holmes's home is probably a fifteen-or-twenty-minute drive from my house in Gorham, Maine. She lives near the ocean. I'm more inland but our habitats are likely very similar. My family lives in a neighborhood but with plenty of wildlife between most of the homes for animals to have an unnoticed keg party. 'Suburban Safari' was published in 2005. It's a lighthearted presentation with loads of interesting information and personal insights by the author. Even when she is writing about life-and-death situations, Ms. Holmes interjects some light wordplay. The book never had me laughing out loud but her presentation is far removed from some boring academic composition. Like most people, we take for granted the familiar. The author's book reminds us that there are loads of interesting ongoing happenings just outside (hell, and inside) our door.She begins her year-long investigation during the Spring and concludes the book during Winter. The work describes various birds such as the highly intelligent crows, hummingbirds, Maine's state bird the chickadee, and the invasive species known as starlings and English sparrows. The lady certainly has an especially poor opinion of starlings and English sparrows which she explains. There's enough of a dark side to the author that she seems to relish the deaths of these two birds by other animals and isn't shy about killing mice in her basement to rid her home of them. She serves the mouse corpses to the animals, especially crows, who've come to view her place as the local neighborhood's free buffet. As the self-deprecating Ms. Holmes acknowledges, she chooses what she loves. The author names some of the crows, a hawk, some squirrels, a few spiders, and a chipmunk named Cheeky who she trains to come into her home at its leisure for food and affection. Some of the other topics Ms. Holmes covers include the various plants and trees, water, insects, the history of the lawn, various Maine mammals, the evolution of New England's topography, invasive species both plant and animal, pollution, and how humans affect their surroundings. She evens taste-tests some of the greenery. Unless one of our trees starts growing bottles of French salad dressing, I'll leave the taste-testing for the female Euell Gibbons from South Portland. The author also avoids sanitizing the more brutal aspects of nature where death is a daily companion. Also, small portions of the book seem to have Ms. Holmes channeling the late Rachel Carson but not in some off-putting lecture sort of way.'Suburban Safari' is an intimate work that has the reader becoming more aware of their immediate surroundings. It's not a bad thing, especially as society becomes evermore addicted to twenty-four-hours news stations, the Internet, and their cell phones. The book is a mixture of her personal journey of discoveries and adventures as well as many interesting facts about her little slice of nature. Now, go out there, read the book, and hug a skunk if you dare.
I've read this book three times over the past few years and have found it to be interesting and informative in a new way each time (or maybe I'm just not a very thorough reader). Hannah Holmes writes engagingly - I felt like I was having coffee with her as she chatted about what she'd discovered. Her discoveries are well researched and honest. The book has inspired me to be more observant of my own little yard and the safaris I've taken have been most pleasurable. Thank you for giving us this delightful series of observations, Ms. Holmes.
Hannah Holmes takes an ordinary subject: the yard surrounding her home, and turns it into an extraordinary treatise on the carbon footprint we are all leaving on the earth. Holmes splits her book into four sections, each one covering a season. She explores all the forms of life in her yard: insects, mammals, birds, even the native and invasive plant life. Her investigation uncovers the natural interdependence of all the various lifeforms and discusses the impact of our human lives on both our personal environment and as a species on the earth's ecology.The book contains lots of interesting facts about the insects, animals and plant life we see every day, and Holmes writes with a lively and easy prose. She makes an intensely scientific subject a fun educational adventure as she describes the daily activities of her paranoid crows, randy squirrels, cheeky chipmunk, industrious ants, fighting beetles and sentient trees that will make you look twice at your everyday surroundings.
A fabulous and highly informative read. Ms Holmes is a talented, clever, and entertaining writer.
Ah, my kind of nature nut, or so we're called, those loving the planet and its animals, birds and other live stuff. Well, maybe not mosquitoes. Who cannot be pleased with a chipmunk as a friend?
This is a book to make anybody who lives in a house with a yard (or near a park) stop yearning for distant wilderness, and realize that NATURE lives where you do. Science writer Holmes not only observed her local plants and animals, she researched their background, history, interconnections. Those supplemental detours are as fascinating as the critters whose antics she reports.
A little strange but overall interesting to read about things in my yard.
Although the author has a fantastic vocabulary and writes well, I feel that she veered off the subject of her CURRENT backyard too often. I had no interest in reading about the glacial age and the history of wolves in Maine and an entire chapter was dedicated to it. Nor was I interested in reports about lawns in Arizona and California, where the author had visited, or facts about the insulation in her house, and the way that fuel usage affects the environment.However, there are interesting observations presented in a very readable manner, along the way. If you are interested in native versus non-native plant species, you will learn about them here. And some stories, like the relationship that develops with a chipmunk, are heartwarming. In summation: I felt that many of the subjects written about were not first hand experiences, but rather information that the author gleened from professionals in their respective fields. I expected something along the lines of a journal, and something with a stronger timetable, that would represent "A Year on the Lawn".
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