TY - BOOK AU - Terrell F.Dixon TI - City wilds: essays and stories about urban nature SN - 0820323500 U1 - 810.8036 CIT 22nd ed. PY - 2002/// CY - Athens PB - The University of Georgia Press KW - University of South Alabama KW - Urban ecology (Sociology) KW - Literary collections KW - Nature N2 - The assumptions we make about nature writing too often lead us to see it only as literature about wilderness or rural areas. City Wilds broadens our awareness of American nature writing by featuring the flora, fauna, geography, and climates that enrich and shape urban life. Set in neither pristine nor exotic environs, these thirty-five stories and essays take us to rivers, parks, vacant lots, lakes, gardens, and zoos as they portray nature's rich disregard of city limits ER -