Roaming Readers: The Get Outside Book Club

Roaming Readers is a monthly outdoor book club dedicated to bringing nature into our daily lives while learning about our outside world through books, and to exercise.

January's book club pick is Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach. To put the book on hold and see what's up next review the Roaming Readers book list.

About the Book

"Join "America's funniest science writer" (Peter Carlson, Washington Post) Mary Roach on an irresistible investigation into the unpredictable world where wildlife and humans meet. What's to be done about a jaywalking moose? A grizzly bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? As New York Times best-selling author Mary Roach discovers, the answers are best found not in jurisprudence but in science: the curious science of human-wildlife conflict, a discipline at the crossroads of human behavior and wildlife biology.

Roach tags along with animal attack forensics investigators, human-elephant conflict specialists, bear managers, and "danger tree" faller-blasters. She travels from leopard-terrorized hamlets in the Indian Himalaya to St. Peter's Square in the early hours before the Pope arrives for Easter Mass, when vandal gulls swoop in to destroy the elaborate floral display. Along the way, Roach reveals as much about humanity as about nature's lawbreakers. Combining little- known forensic science and conservation genetics with a motley cast of laser scarecrows, langur impersonators, and mugging macaques, Fuzz offers hope for compassionate coexistence in our ever-expanding human habitat" --from the Publisher

 

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Location

2nd Floor, Community Room

Library | Parks & Recreation Center, 901 Civic Campus Way, 94080, View Map