 | City Wilds: Essays and Stories about Urban Nature
Buy new: $19.95 / Used from: $10.00 This was the first uban nature book I ever found. A great jumping off point.
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 | Red-Tails in Love: A Wildlife Drama in Central Park (Vintage Departures) by Marie Winn
Buy new: $11.21 / Used from: $0.01 Not just the story of Pale Male in New York City, this book is filled with lots of urban nature in Central Park.
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 | Central Park in the Dark: More Mysteries of Urban Wildlife by Marie Winn
Buy new: $18.25 / Used from: $1.46 Marie Winn's next great batch of urban nature stories from Central Park.
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 | Snowshoeing Through Sewers: Adventures in New York City, New Jersey, and Philadelphia by Michael Aaron Rockland
Buy new: $18.95 / Used from: $12.42 A chapter from this book is included in "City Wilds". A very entertaining look at urban nature.
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 | Enchanted streets;: The unlikely adventures of an urban nature lover by Leonard Dubkin
Buy used from: $4.50 I also found this book from a chapter in "City Wilds". It's the oldest book on my list, published in 1947. Leonard Dubkin writes about urban nature in Chicago.
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 | Toronto the Wild: Field Notes of an Urban Naturalist by Wayne Grady
Buy new: $11.95 / Used from: $7.49 I'm not sure how I found this book; just surfing on Amazon.com I guess. A good find.
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 | Sagebrush and Cappuccino: Confessions of an L.A. Naturalist by David P. Wicinas
Buy new: $14.95 / Used from: $6.38 A great look at urban nature from a west coast perspective.
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 | The Hopes of Snakes: And Other Tales from the Urban Landscape by Lisa Couturier
Buy new: $11.90 / Used from: $0.99 Although Lisa Couturier's first chapter is also the first chapter in "City Wilds" (2002), this book of her essays wasn't published until three years later in 2005. I only recently discovered this treasure (2008).
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 | Suburban Safari: A Year on the Lawn by Hannah Holmes
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.98 Don't let the word "suburban" in the title dissuade you. This is a great book for urban naturalists.
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 | Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $6.43 A departure from the prose of the rest of the list, this is nevertheless required reading for any urban naturalist.
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