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100 1  Sullivan, Robert,|d1963-|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
       names/n97086596 
245 10 Rats :|bobservations on the history and habitat of the 
       city's most unwanted inhabitants /|cRobert Sullivan. 
250    1st U.S. ed. 
264  1 New York, NY :|bBloomsbury :|bDistributed to the trade by 
       Holtzbrinck Publishers,|c2004. 
300    242 pages ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
505 0  Nature -- City rat -- Where I went to see rats and who 
       sent me there -- Edens alley -- Brute neighbors -- Summer 
       -- Unrepresented man -- Food -- Fights -- Garbage --  
       Exterminators -- Excellent -- Trapping -- Plague -- Winter
       -- Plague in America -- Catching -- Rat king -- Golden 
       hill -- Spring -- Notes -- Acknowledgments. 
520    Thoreau went to Walden Pond to live simply in the wild and
       contemplate his own place in the world by observing 
       nature. Robert Sullivan went to a disused, garbage-filled 
       alley in lower Manhattan to contemplate the city and its 
       lesser-known inhabitants -- by observing the rat. Rats 
       live in the world precisely where humans do; they survive 
       on the effluvia of human society; they eat our garbage. 
       While dispensing gruesomely fascinating rat facts and 
       strangely entertaining rat stories -- everyone has one, it
       turns out -- 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. With a notebook and night-vision gear, 
       he sits in the streamlike flow of garbage and searches for
       fabled rat kings, sets out to trap a rat, and eventually 
       travels to the Midwest to learn about rats in Chicago, 
       Milwaukee, and other cities of America. With tales of rat 
       fights in the Gangs of New York era and stories of Harlem 
       rent strike leaders who used rats to win basic rights for 
       tenants, Sullivan looks deep into the largely unrecorded 
       history of the city and its masses -- its herd-of-rats-
       like mob. Funny, wise, sometimes disgusting yet always 
       compulsively readable, Rats earns its unlikely place 
       alongside the great classics of nature writing. 
600 10 Sullivan, Robert,|d1963-|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
       names/n97086596 
600 17 Sullivan, Robert,|d1963-|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/
       fast/396632 
650  0 Rats|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85111538
       |zNew York (State)|zNew York|0https://id.loc.gov/
       authorities/names/n79007751-781|vAnecdotes.|0https://
       id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001294 
650  0 Urban pests|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/
       sh85141321|zNew York (State)|zNew York|0https://id.loc.gov
       /authorities/names/n79007751-781|vAnecdotes.|0https://
       id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001294 
650  7 Rats.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1090300 
650  7 Urban pests.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1162481 
651  7 New York (State)|zNew York.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org
       /fast/1204333 
655  7 Anecdotes.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1423876 
655  7 Anecdotes.|2lcgft|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
       genreForms/gf2014026044 
856 41 |3Table of contents|uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip046
       /2003016293.html 
856 42 |3Contributor biographical information|uhttp://www.loc.gov
       /catdir/bios/hol054/2003016293.html 
856 42 |3Publisher description|uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/
       description/hol041/2003016293.html 
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