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Mother Nature Is Trying To Kill You
Dan Riskin
A Lively Tour Through the Dark Side of the Natural World
Touchstone
March 2014
On Sale: March 4, 2014
272 pages ISBN: 1476707545 EAN: 9781476707549 Kindle: B00DPM7XLO Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction
It may be a wonderful world, but as Dan Riskin (cohost of
Discovery Canada’s Daily Planet) explains, it’s also
a dangerous, disturbing, and disgusting one. At every turn,
it seems, living things are trying to eat us, poison us, use
our bodies as their homes, or have us spread their eggs. In
Mother Nature Is Trying to Kill You, Riskin is our
guide through the natural world at its most gloriously
ruthless. Using the seven deadly sins as a road map,
Riskin offers dozens of jaw-dropping examples that
illuminate how brutal nature can truly be. From slothful
worms that hide in your body for up to thirty years to
wrathful snails with poisonous harpoons that can kill you in
less than five minutes to lustful ducks that have orgasms
faster than you can blink, these fascinating accounts reveal
the candid truth about “gentle” Mother Nature’s true colors. Riskin’s passion for the strange and his enthusiastic
expertise bring Earth’s most fascinating flora and fauna
into vivid focus. Through his adventures—which include
sliding on his back through a thick soup of bat guano just
to get face-to-face with a vampire bat, befriending a
parasitic maggot that has taken root on his head, and coming
to grips with having offspring of his own—Riskin makes
unexpected discoveries not just about the world all around
us but also about the ways this brutal world has shaped us
as humans and what our responsibilities are to this
terrible, wonderful planet we call home.
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