Red Hourglass Lives of the Predators

Name: Red Hourglass Lives of the Predators
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ISBN: 9780385318877

ISBN-10: 0385318871

ISBN-13: 9780385318877

Edition: 1998

Authors: Gordon Grice

List price: $18.95

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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 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…

Book details

List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/9/1998
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.682

Gordon Grice is a nature writer and author of The Red Hourglass: Lives of the Predators and Deadly Kingdom: The Book of Dangerous Animals. His articles about wildlife and biology have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, and Discover. He lives in Wisconsin and online at gordongrice.com.



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