Life on planet earth is t weirder than we imagine. It's weirder than we are capable of imagining. And we're all in it together: humans, blue whales, rats, birds of paradise, ridiculous numbers of beetles, molluscs the size of a bus, the sexual gladiators of slugs, bdelloid rotifers who haven't had sex for millions of years and creatures called water bears: you can boil them, freeze them and fire them off into space without killing them.We're all part of the animal kingdom, appearing in what Darwin called 'endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful'. In this breathtakingly audacious book Simon Barnes has brought us all together, seeking t what separates us but what unites us. He takes us white-water rafting through the entire animal kingdom in a book that is both startlingly original and intricately structured.The book brings in deep layers of arcane kwledge, the works of Darwin and James Joyce, Barnes's own don't-try-this-at-home adventures in the wild, David Attenborough, Sherlock Holmes. It is a book that opens your eyes to the real marvels of the planet we live on.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Short Books Ltd
ISBN-10
1780721420
ISBN-13
9781780721422
eBay Product ID (ePID)
140001177
Product Key Features
Format
Hardback
Language
English
Topic
Natural History: General
Author
Simon Barnes
Genre
Natural History: General
Dimensions
Height
234mm
Width
156mm
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
London
Date of Publication
01/03/2013
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Author Biography
Simon Barnes is the multi-award-winning chief sportswriter for the Times. He is also a novelist, nature writer and horseman, and the author of a dozen books, including the bestselling How to be a Bad Birdwatcher and The Meaning of Sport. He lives in Suffolk with his family.