![]() ![]() Funny, wise, sometimes disgusting but always compulsively readable, Rats earns its unlikely place alongside the great classics of nature writing. Sullivan looks deep into the largely unrecorded history of the city and its masses-its herds-of-rats-like mob. Sullivan gets to know not just the beast but its friends and foes: the exterminators, the sanitation workers, the agitators and activists who have played their part in the centuries-old war between human city dweller and wild city rat. Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the Citys Most Unwanted Inhabitants. ![]() In Rats, the critically acclaimed bestseller, Robert Sullivan spends a year investigating a rat-infested alley just a few blocks away from Wall Street. Rats: Observations on the History & Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants Kindle Edition by Robert Sullivan (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 246 ratings 3.7 on Goodreads 4,083 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 9.99 Read with Our Free App Library Binding 26.90 3 Used from 22.44 1 New from 26. The author dispenses rat facts and entertaining rat stories, looking into the history of rats, and describes how, with the aid of a notebook and night-vision gear, he sat nightly in a garbage-filled alley getting to know the wild city rat. Annotation: The New York Times bestseller, now available in paperback with an all-new afterword by the author.Love them or loathe them, rats are here to stay-they are city dwellers as much as (or more than) we are, surviving on the effluvia of our society. ![]()
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