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Deadly Kingdom : The Book of Dangerous Animals by Gordon Grice HC/DJ
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- ISBN
- 9780385335621
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0385335628
ISBN-13
9780385335621
eBay Product ID (ePID)
102851624
Product Key Features
Book Title
Deadly Kingdom : the Book of Dangerous Animals
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Animals / General
Publication Year
2010
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Nature
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
21.7 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2009-033933
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"A wonderful, slightly terrifying, utterly captivating encounter with the animal world-not quite like anything I've ever read before."-Elizabeth Gilbert, author ofEat, Pray,LoveandCommitted "Deadly Kingdomis an engagingly original field guide to the venomous, the sharp-clawed, the infectious, and the downright predatory. It's a witty, fascinating, and playfully macabre read." David Baron, author ofThe Beast in the Garden "Deadly Kingdom is sometimes gory, always gorgeous, and really great. Gordon Grice is a warm and funny guide, his fingers always on the facts. There are amazing stories here, fascinating people and places, but above all, there are the animals we thought we knew, and the ones we've never heard of: hagfish, guinea worms, eyelash vipers, blister beetles. You'll never go barefoot in the barnyard again." Bill Roorbach, author ofTemple Stream: A Rural Odyssey "Deadly Kingdommakes it clear that you are not on top of the food chain." Pamela Nagami, M.D., author ofBitten: True Medical Stories of Bites and Stings, "A wonderful, slightly terrifying, utterly captivating encounter with the animal world-not quite like anything I've ever read before."-Elizabeth Gilbert, author ofEat, Pray,LoveandCommitted , "Did he say repugnatorial gland ? What a wealth of information Gordon Grice is, and what a fine, beguiling writer. This book is a must for anyone even remotely thinking of getting a monkey, a sea lion, or, heaven forbid, a dog." - David Sedaris "A wonderful, slightly terrifying, utterly captivating encounter with the animal world--not quite like anything I've ever read before."-- Elizabeth Gilbert , author of Eat, Pray, Love and Committed " Deadly Kingdom is an engagingly original field guide to the venomous, the sharp-clawed, the infectious, and the downright predatory. It's a witty, fascinating, and playfully macabre read." - David Baron , author of The Beast in the Garden " Deadly Kingdom is sometimes gory, always gorgeous, and really great. Gordon Grice is a warm and funny guide, his fingers always on the facts. There are amazing stories here, fascinating people and places, but above all, there are the animals we thought we knew, and the ones we've never heard of: hagfish, guinea worms, eyelash vipers, blister beetles. You'll never go barefoot in the barnyard again." - Bill Roorbach , author of Temple Stream: A Rural Odyssey " Deadly Kingdom makes it clear that you are not on top of the food chain." - Pamela Nagami, M.D ., author of Bitten: True Medical Stories of Bites and Stings, "Did he say repugnatorial gland ? What a wealth of information Gordon Grice is, and what a fine, beguiling writer. This book is a must for anyone even remotely thinking of getting a monkey, a sea lion, or, heaven forbid, a dog." David Sedaris "A wonderful, slightly terrifying, utterly captivating encounter with the animal world-not quite like anything I've ever read before."- Elizabeth Gilbert , author of Eat, Pray, Love and Committed " Deadly Kingdom is an engagingly original field guide to the venomous, the sharp-clawed, the infectious, and the downright predatory. It's a witty, fascinating, and playfully macabre read." David Baron , author of The Beast in the Garden " Deadly Kingdom is sometimes gory, always gorgeous, and really great. Gordon Grice is a warm and funny guide, his fingers always on the facts. There are amazing stories here, fascinating people and places, but above all, there are the animals we thought we knew, and the ones we've never heard of: hagfish, guinea worms, eyelash vipers, blister beetles. You'll never go barefoot in the barnyard again." Bill Roorbach , author of Temple Stream: A Rural Odyssey " Deadly Kingdom makes it clear that you are not on top of the food chain." Pamela Nagami, M.D ., author of Bitten: True Medical Stories of Bites and Stings, "Did he sayrepugnatorial gland? What a wealth of information Gordon Grice is, and what a fine, beguiling writer. This book is a must for anyone even remotely thinking of getting a monkey, a sea lion, or, heaven forbid, a dog." David Sedaris "A wonderful, slightly terrifying, utterly captivating encounter with the animal world-not quite like anything I've ever read before."-Elizabeth Gilbert, author ofEat, Pray,LoveandCommitted "Deadly Kingdomis an engagingly original field guide to the venomous, the sharp-clawed, the infectious, and the downright predatory. It's a witty, fascinating, and playfully macabre read." David Baron, author ofThe Beast in the Garden "Deadly Kingdom is sometimes gory, always gorgeous, and really great. Gordon Grice is a warm and funny guide, his fingers always on the facts. There are amazing stories here, fascinating people and places, but above all, there are the animals we thought we knew, and the ones we've never heard of: hagfish, guinea worms, eyelash vipers, blister beetles. You'll never go barefoot in the barnyard again." Bill Roorbach, author ofTemple Stream: A Rural Odyssey "Deadly Kingdommakes it clear that you are not on top of the food chain." Pamela Nagami, M.D., author ofBitten: True Medical Stories of Bites and Stings
Dewey Decimal
591.6/5
Synopsis
In this elegantly illustrated, often darkly funny compendium of animal predation, Grice presents hard-to-stomach, hard-to-resist facts and legends of animal encounters., How does a tiny box jellyfish, with no brain and little control over where it goes in the water, manage to kill a full-grown man? What harm have hippos been known to inflict on humans, and why? What makes our closest cousin, the chimpanzee, the most dangerous of all apes to encounter in the wild? In this elegantly illustrated, often darkly funny compendium of animal predation, Gordon Grice, hailed by Michael Pollan as "a fresh, strange, and wonderful new voice in American nature writing," presents findings that are by turns surprising, humorous, and horrifying. Personally obsessed by both the menace and beauty of animals since he was six years old and a deadly cougar wandered onto his family's farm, Grice now reaps a lifetime of study in this unique survey--at once a reading book and a resource. Categorized by kind and informed throughout by the author's unsentimental view of the natural order and our place in it, here are the hard-to-stomach, hard-to-resist facts and legends of animal encounters. Whether it's the elephant that collided with a fuel tanker and lived (the tanker exploded), the turn-of-the-century household cure for a copperhead bite (douse the infected area in kerosene), or the shark that terrorized the New Jersey coastline for a summer (later inspiring the film Jaws), everything you've ever wanted to know about animals but were afraid to ask is included in this hair-raising, heart-racing volume. By turns wondrous, mordant, and sobering, this book is ultimately a celebration of the animal world--in all its perilous glory--by a writer who's been heralded by The New York Times for his ability to combine "the observations of a naturalist with a dry, homespun philosopher's wit."
LC Classification Number
QL100.G75 2010
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