Book of Deadly Animals - Softcover

Gordon Grice

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0241951291 ISBN 13: 9780241951293

Publisher: Viking, 2012

Synopsis

From big cats that will tear you to pieces and snakes with venom that will kill you in 15 minutes to the tiny ticks, lice and parasitic worms that can make you very ill, Gordon Grice reveals the dark side of the animal kingdom as he describes - in gory detail - the most dangerous and sometimes fatal encounters between ourselves and our 'fellow earthlings'.

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About the Author:

Gordon Grice is one of the world's leading authorities on the dangers of the animal kingdom, having dedicated a lifetime's study to the subject ever since a cougar wandered onto his family's farm when he was six. He is the author of The Red Hourglass: Lives of the Predators, and his writing has appeared in Granta, the New Yorker, Harper's and other magazines, and has been anthologized in The Best American Essays. He lives with his family in Wisconsin. www.deadlykingdom.com

Review:

This book is the serious, adult, hardback equivalent of that splendid programme [Deadly 60] ... a work of mountainous, vertiginous research, a 350-page volume in which scarcely a word is wasted. This review can barely scratch the surface of its wonders * Daily Mail * Thrillingly scary .... Though I can imagine this book making a perfect stocking filler for adolescent boys, it's also a beautifully-written, well-researched work * Mail on Sunday * A wonderful, slightly terrifying, utterly captivating encounter with the animal world - not quite like anything I've ever read before. I think the only way I could possibly have enjoyed this more is if I happened to be an adventurous twelve-year-old boy, but still, even for a fully domesticated forty-year-old woman, it was both a thrill and an education * Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat Pray Love * When it comes to the most deadly animals on the planet it is best to be prepared. With The Book of Deadly Animals forewarned is forearmed! -- Bear Grylls Gordon Grice treats his deadly subject with wit and wry humour, but he does not sensationalise it ... His anecdotes include personal encounters with cougars, black widow spiders and a mouse that defecated in his strawberry pie * Independent * A must for anyone even remotely thinking of getting a monkey, a sea lion, or, heaven forbid, a dog * David Sedaris * A fresh, strange, and wonderful new voice in nature writing * Michael Pollan * A lovely little book. After all we've done to them it's great to see the animals getting their own back -- Tony Fitzjohn, author of Born Wild I wolfed it down * Will Self on The Red Hourglass * First-rate, unsentimental writing about nature and about the ways that human beings try to cope with the most terrible cruelties that nature offers up * The New York Times * Elegant and wryly funny * Esquire *

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0241951291
• ISBN 13: 9780241951293
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 382