The Red Hourglass: Lives of the Predators - Hardcover

Grice, Gordon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385318871 ISBN 13: 9780385318877

Verlag: Delacorte Pubns Inc, 1998

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Book by Grice Gordon

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Presents a close-up look at nature's most deadly predators, including black widow spiders, rattlesnakes, and tarantulas--natural-born killers, who, for reasons unknown, have been bestowed with the ability to kill with ease.

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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 intrepid guide through a world where mating ends in cannibalism, where killers possess toxins so lethal as to defy our ideas of a benevolent God, where spider remains, scattered like "the cast-off coats of untidy children," tell a quiet story of violent self-extermination. It's a world you'll recognize despite its exotic strangeness--the world in which we live. Unabashedly stepping into the mix, Grice abandons his role as objective observer with beguiling dark humor--collecting spiders and other vermin, decorating a tarantula's t

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• Verlag: Delacorte Pubns Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0385318871
• ISBN 13: 9780385318877
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 259