Ten million aliens : a journey through the entire animal kingdom / Simon Barnes.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York, NY : Marble Arch Press, [2015]Edition: First Marble Arch Press hardcover editionDescription: 480 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781476730356 :
- 1476730350
- 10 million aliens
- 590 23
- QL50 .B25 2015
Item type | Current library | Home library | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Book | La Retama Central Library | La Retama Central Library | Nonfiction | 590 BAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 43185001013307 |
"February 2015"--Title page verso.
Originally published: London : Short Books, 2014.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"This fascinating scientific foray into the animal kingdom examines how the world's creatures-- weird, wonderful, and everything in between-- are inextricably linked." -- Amazon.com
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.
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