Why We Are Here: Mobile and the Spirit of a Southern City (inscribed by Wilson and Harris)
NY: Liverwright, 2012. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by both Wilson and Harris on the title page. Uncommon signed, with no other copies available as of this writing. A collaboration between a renown photographer and one of the world's most famous scientists to examine the city of Mobile, where Wilson grew up. "Revisiting the landscape that set him on his course in life as a scientist, conservationist, and writer, Wilson has retraced his family's two-century history from the Civil War through the Depression . . . to Mobile's racial and environmental struggles to its cultural triumphs today." Harris accompanies this important memoir from Wilson with striking photos of the landscape and of Wilson in this place, as well as two bracketing essays. Harris is the founder of Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies and is the recipient of a Guggenheim, a Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowship, and a Lyndhurst Prize. An oblong small quarto, coffee-table worthy. A fine book in brown paper boards; in a fine jacket. Fine / Fine. Item #1857
ISBN: 9780871404701
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