The Fabulous Ordinary by Georgann Eubanks - 9781469685922

Name: The Fabulous Ordinary by Georgann Eubanks - 9781469685922
Brand: The University of North Carolina Press

The University of North Carolina Press

The Fabulous OrdinaryDiscovering the Natural Wonders of the Wild South\nAuthor(s): Georgann Eubanks\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of North Carolina Press, United States\nImprint: The University of North Carolina Press\nISBN-13: 9781469685922, 978-1469685922\nSynopsis\nGeorgann Eubanks offers readers a tour of the seasonal joys of ecosystems in the Southeast. The ordinary destinations and events she explores are scattered across seven states and include such wonders as a half-million purple martins roosting on an island in a South Carolina lake, the bloom of thirty acres of dimpled trout lilies in a remote Georgia forest, gnat larvae that glow like stars on the rock walls of an obscure Alabama canyon, and the overnight accumulation of elaborately patterned moths on the side of a North Carolina mountain cabin. \n\nThese phenomena and others reveal how plants, mammals, amphibians, and insects are managing to persevere despite pressures from human invasion, habitat destru.