{"product_id":"9780871404701","title":"Why We Are Here: Mobile and the Spirit of a Southern City","description":"From this historic collaboration between a beloved naturalist and a great American photographer emerges a South we’ve never encountered before.\u003cbr\u003eEntranced 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 world 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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Liveright Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47008820003056,"sku":"9780871404701","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780871404701_p0.jpg?v=1763831293","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780871404701","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}