Swimming with Piranhas at Feeding Time: My Life Doing Dumb Stuff with Animals - Hardcover

Conniff, Richard

 
9780393068931: Swimming with Piranhas at Feeding Time: My Life Doing Dumb Stuff with Animals
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0393068935 ISBN 13: 9780393068931
Verlag: WW Norton & Co, 2009

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Field journalist Richard Conniff examines the lives of two-, four-, six-, and eight-legged creatures from around the globe, providing adventure-packed accounts of his many ill advised forays into the animal kingdom. He pulls a 90-pound snapping turtle out of a Louisiana bayou, tracks leopards with !Kung San hunters in the Namibian desert, and travels through the Himalayas in pursuit of tigers and the mythical migur. All in a day’s work, he flings chicken carcasses into piranha-infested waters to clock how quickly they disappear before diving in himself, and then encounters a man stung by 120 different species of insects, ranking their pain the way Robert Parker ranks wine. Again and again, Conniff courts the most dangerous animals and lives to tell the tale. This collection offers a rare chance to accompany him on death defying treks and see life through the lens of a bona-fide field naturalist.

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Richard Conniff, a Guggenheim Fellow and winner of the National Magazine Award, writes for Smithsonian and National Geographic and is a frequent commentator on NPR's All Things Considered and a guest columnist for the New York Times. His books include The Natural History of the Rich, Swimming with Piranhas at Feeding Time, and The Species Seekers. He lives in Old Lyme, Connecticut.

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Verlag
WW Norton & Co
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0393068935
ISBN 13 
9780393068931
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304
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