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

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ISBN-10: 0393068935

ISBN-13: 9780393068931

Edition: 2009

Authors: Richard Conniff, Conniff

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An award-winning nature writer takes us on a thrilling journey deep into the domains of strange—and often dangerous—animals. 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…    
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Book details

List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/4/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 5.90" wide x 8.60" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English