(Download free ebook) The Red Hourglass: Lives of the Predators
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| #2364161 in Books | 1998-03-09 | 1998-03-09 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.00 x5.25 x1.00l, | File Name: 0385318871 | 259 pages
||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Somewhat disturbing but well written and informative|By P. Mann|This book came to my attention when someone on an online mailing list devoted to arachnids mentioned that she had started reading the book and found it upsetting, perhaps because she is "just too tender-hearted where arachnids are concerned."
Even before reading the book, I found another warning, this o|.com |Gordon Grice, a young essayist from rural western Oklahoma, writes winningly of insects in all their glory, basing his narrative on lifelong observations of creatures such as the black widow, praying mantis, brown recluse--and the occasional human bein
Snake venom that digests human flesh. A building cleared of every living thing by a band of tiny spiders. An infant insect eating its living prey from within, saving the vital organs for last. These are among the deadly feats of natural engineering you'll witness in The Red Hourglass, prize-winning author Gordon Grice's masterful, poetic, often dryly funny exploration of predators he has encountered around his rural Oklahoma home.
Grice is a witty and int...
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