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Why We Are Here: Mobile and the Spirit of a Southern City
Why We Are Here Mobile and the Spirit of a Southern City Author:Edward O. Wilson, Alex Harris From this historic collaboration between a beloved naturalist and a great American photographer emerges a South we?ve never encountered before.Entranced by Edward O. Wilson?s mesmerizing evocation of his Southern childhood in The Naturalist and Anthill, Alex Harris approached the scientist about collaborating on a book about Wilson?s native worl... more »d of Mobile, Alabama. Perceiving that Mobile was a city small enough to be captured through a lens yet old enough to have experienced a full epic cycle of tragedy and rebirth, the photographer and the naturalist joined forces to capture the rhythms of this storied Alabama Gulf region through a swirling tango of lyrical words and breathtaking images. With Wilson tracing his family?s history from the Civil War through the Depression?when mule-driven wagons still clogged the roads?to Mobile?s racial and environmental struggles to its cultural triumphs today, and with Harris stunningly capturing the mood of a radically transformed city that has adapted to the twenty-first century, the book becomes a universal story, one that tells us where we all come from and why we are here. 115 color photographs; 3 maps« less