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Close to Home
The Wonders of Nature Just Outside Your Door
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By Thor Hanson
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We all live on nature’s doorstep, but we often overlook it. From backyards to local parks, the natural places we see the most may well be the ones we know the least.
In Close to Home, biologist Thor Hanson shows how retraining our eyes reveals hidden wonders just waiting to be discovered. In Kansas City, migrating monarch butterflies flock to the local zoo. In the Pacific Northwest, fierce yellowjackets placidly sip honeydew, unseen in the treetops. In New England, a lawn gone slightly wild hosts a naturalist’s life’s work. And in the soil beneath our feet, remedies for everything from breast cancer to the stench of skunks lie waiting for someone’s searching shovel.
Close to Home is a hands-on natural history for any local patch of Earth. It shows that we each can contribute to science and improve the health of our planet. And even more, it proves that the wonders of nature don’t lie in some far-off land: they await us, close to home.
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"Thor Hanson has done it again! In this surprising, upbeat, and exciting book, we learn that not only everyday wonders, but actual scientific discovery awaits us Close To Home. The perfect mix of science and story, told by a master of both. I loved it!"Sy Montgomery, author of The Soul of an Octopus
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“Thor Hanson’s Close to Home invites us to step into the ordinary and discover the extraordinary. From natural science experiments to the search for new species, Hanson reminds us that awe and wonder are as close as our own backyard. With Hanson as our guide, a walk around the block becomes an opportunity to explore, to conserve, to ask questions, and to broaden our horizons.”Amy Stewart, author of The Drunken Botanist
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"Thor Hanson’s Close to Home, written with classic Hanson prose and enthusiasm, is as addictive as it is entertaining. Hanson teaches the value of looking high and low, near and far, at the fascinating natural systems we have never noticed right in our yards. And, very much to my liking, he tells us how to enhance those systems with minor tweaks to our landscapes. Thor Hanson has forced me to use the dreaded cliche: I couldn’t put it down!"Doug Tallamy, author of Nature's Best Hope
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“Packed with inspiration and insight, the wonders of the living world are vividly revealed in this beautifully crafted invitation to curiosity and exploration.”David George Haskell, author of The Forest Unseen
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"When we love a book we typically say, 'I couldn’t put it down.' Close to Home is different. This book inspires such a rush of curiosity, I simply had to put it down over and over again so I could run out the door and investigate: peer beneath leaves for never-known insects, or turn my ear to the subtle language of neighborhood birds, or reach my hands into the soil to touch the under-earth beings beneath my everyday notice. What joy. Thor Hanson’s love for his subject is infectious, and reminds us that access to the deep knowledge we need in this complex ecological time does not lie only within institutional walls, but in the everyday conversations between our wild minds, our wild hearts, and the wild earth."Lyanda Lynn Haupt, author of Rooted
- On Sale
- Mar 11, 2025
- Page Count
- 304 pages
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- ISBN-13
- 9781541601246
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