{"product_id":"why-we-are-here-9780871404701","title":"Why We Are Here","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom this historic collaboration between a beloved naturalist and a great American photographer emerges a South we’ve never encountered before.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Pulitzer Prize–winning naturalist and Harvard professor Wilson (\u003cem\u003eOn Human Nature\u003c\/em\u003e) and acclaimed photographer and Duke University professor Harris (\u003cem\u003eRiver of Traps\u003c\/em\u003e) team up to convey the spirit of Mobile, Ala., through text and images. Wilson writes of his childhood in Mobile and recounts the complicated heritage of his hometown in a sprawling essay that weaves personal, social, economic, political, and natural history.... Harris’s intimate pictures beautifully capture quotidian moments, offering a context for the diverse characters, lush landscapes, and events, traumatic and joyful, that define Mobile today: a high school football team marches arm-in-arm; a tiger swallowtail hesitates in a verdant meadow; a Civil War re-enactor poses with Confederate memorabilia; two outstretched arms, one black and one white, point toward the infinity of the Gulf of Mexico’s horizon. A hybrid document meant to be as much about “the meaning of place as it is about a place itself,” the book is a thoughtful meditation on community and storytelling that reminds us we will never understand ourselves until we know where we come from.\" -- Publishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\"The great naturalist E. O. Wilson, who grew up in Mobile, and the photographer Alex Harris evoke and explore that exceptional city and its surroundings… The upshot, revealed in this uncommonly effective marriage of photographs and text, is a place at once deeply southern and more than a bit foreign.\" -- Atlantic Monthly\u003cbr\u003e\"Delightful… The Mobile Bay area is a distinctive and special place, as anyone who lives here knows. E. O. Wilson, world-renowned scientist and author; and Alex Harris, appreciative outsider with a gifted eye, get this in their bones, and in \u003cem\u003eWhy We Are Here\u003c\/em\u003e proclaim it from the rooftops.\" -- John S. Sledge - Mobile Bay Magazine\u003cbr\u003e\"Excellent… Mr. Harris’s photographs are inquisitive, and Mr. Wilson’s prose is similarly vivid.\" -- Dwight Garner - New  York Times","brand":"WW Norton \u0026 Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49528283431255,"sku":"9780871404701","price":27.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780871404701.jpg?v=1731871062","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/why-we-are-here-9780871404701","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}