Rats: A Year with New Yorks Most Unwanted Inhabitants by Sullivan, Robert

Paperback. Very Good.

Paperback. Acceptable.

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London: Granta Books, 2005. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket. First printing. Pictorial wraps. 8vo, 256pp.

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Granta Books, 2005. 2005. Softcover. 8vo softcover 242pp Very good. Surprisingly funny and compulsively readable, Rats is an unlikely account of a year spent in a garbage-strewn alley in lower Manhattan. Robert Sullivan - intrepid journalist, curious writer, fearful urban dweller - sets off to contemplate New York City and its lesser-known byways by observing the lowly rat. He discovers a world almost nobody knows. Sullivan spends the year with a notebook and night-vision goggles, hunting for fabled ratkings, trapping a rat of his own, and trying (and failing) to conquer his own fear of rats. He meets the exterminators, garbage men, and civic activists who play their part in the centuries-old war between human city-dweller and wild city rat. He travels to a bizarre Midwestern conference on rats that brings together the leading experts on rat history, behaviour and control (did you know that one pair of rats has the potential for 15,000 descendants in a year? that rats' teeth are harder than… Read More

Granta Publications, London, 2005. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. This is the first UK edition. Size: Octavo 8vo (standard book size). 243 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Scattered foxing, but text mostly clean. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. The cover has some crease marks. Surprisingly funny and compulsively readable, Rats is an unlikely account of a year spent in a garbage-strewn alley in lower Manhattan. Robert Sullivan - intrepid journalist, curious writer, fearful urban dweller - sets off to contemplate New York City and its lesser-known byways by observing the lowly rat. He discovers a world almost nobody knows. Sullivan spends the year with a notebook and night-vision goggles, hunting for fabled ratkings, trapping a rat of his own, and trying (and failing) to conquer his own fear of rats. He meets the exterminators, garbage men, and civic activists… Read More

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Granta Books. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!