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.
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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.
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New in new dust jacket. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 324 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. First edition, first printing. New & unread. Book and jacket are without flaws. Shipped to you in a box, not a padded mailer.
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Very good. A copy that has been read, but remains in excellent condition. Pages are intact and are not marred by notes or highlighting, but may contain a neat previous owner name. The spine remains undamaged. An ex-library book and may have standard library stamps and/or stickers. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 103x16x152; 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."
