Ten Million Aliens: A Journey Through the Entire Animal Kingdom - Couverture souple

Barnes, Simon

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1501117181 ISBN 13 : 9781501117183

Editeur : Atria Books/Marble Arch Press, 2015

Synopsis

For Discovery Channel enthusiasts, this scientific foray into life on planet earth examines how the world’s creatures--both weird and wonderful--are inextricably linked.

Life on planet earth is not 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 not what separates us but what unites us. He takes us white-water rafting through the entire animal kingdom in a book that brings in deep layers of arcane knowledge, the works of Darwin and James Joyce, Barnes’s own don’t-try-this-at-home adventures in the wild, David Attenborough and Sherlock Holmes. Ten Million Aliens opens your eyes to the real marvels of the planet we live on.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Simon Barnes is the multi-award-winning chief sportswriter for The Times (London). He is also a nature writer, horseman, and the author of a dozen books, including the bestselling How to Be a Bad Birdwatcher and The Meaning of Sport (Short Books). He lives in Suffolk with his family.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Atria Books/Marble Arch Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1501117181
• ISBN 13: 9781501117183
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 480
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• Personne responsable: non disponible