![]() Sullivan's unusual and absorbing book earns a place alongside the classics of travel writing. In the process, he discovers the many ways in which rats' lives mirror those of humans. He travels to a bizarre Midwestern conference on rats that brings together the leading experts on rat history, behaviour, and control (did you know that one pair of rats can produce 15,000 descendants in a year? That rats' teeth are harder than steel?). 5 Robert Sullivan Quotes on Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the Citys Most Unwanted Inhabitants, My American Revolution and Rats - Quotes.pub. ![]() He meets the exterminators, garbage men and civic activists who play their part in the centuries-old war between human city-dweller and wild city rat. Sullivan spends the year with a notebook and night-vision goggles, hunting for fabled rat-kings, trapping a rat of his own, and trying (and failing) to conquer his own fear of rats. Surprisingly funny and compulsively readable, Rats is an unlikely account of a year spent in a garbage-strewn alley in lower Manhattan. Rats: A Year with New Yorks Most Unwanted Inhabitants by Robert Sullivan 243pp, Granta, £12 A few years ago the BBC wildlife department broadcast a documentary about the common rat: rattus. ![]()
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