Ten Million Aliens: A Journey Through the Entire Animal Kingdom - Rilegato

Barnes, Simon

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9781780721422: Ten Million Aliens: A Journey Through the Entire Animal Kingdom

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ISBN 10: 1780721420 ISBN 13: 9781780721422

Casa editrice: Short Books Ltd, 2014

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Life on Planet Earth is not weirder than we imagine. It's weirder than we are capable of imagining. And we're all in it together: humans, blue whales, rats, birds of paradise, ridiculous numbers of beetles, molluscs the size of a bus, the sexual gladiators of slugs, bdelloid rotifers who haven't had sex for millions of years and creatures called water bears: you can boil them, freeze them and fire them off into space without killing them. We're all part of the animal kingdom, appearing in what Darwin called "endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful". In this breathtakingly audacious book, Simon Barnes has brought us all together, seeking not what separates us but what unites us. He takes us white-water rafting through the entire animal kingdom in a book that brings in deep layers of arcane knowledge, the works of Darwin and James Joyce, Barnes's own don't-try-this-at-home adventures in the wild, David Attenborough and Sherlock Holmes. Ten Million Aliens opens your eyes to the real marvels of the planet we live on.

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"One of the most compulsively readable,
astoundingly compendious and endlessly
thrilling natural histories ever written . . .
This is a book that I will treasure for ever."
-- Stephen Fry

"Ten Million Aliens will open your eyes to the animal world."--Daily Mail

"Ten Million Aliens is Barnes' 22nd book, and if feels like something of an apotheosis...this is more than just a book about animals, though. It's enriched everywhere by the author's curious, magpie mind. The work simultaneously demonstrates the sheer diversity, the alien otherness, of the animal kingdom, and puts us firmly in the same room: at the same table, in fact."The Times

"Barnes has a wonderful knowledge of wildlife and a gift for bringing his enthusiasm to life - He has a deft turn of phrase and a lyrical style." -- Rosie Boycott

"Barnes brings the animal kingdom to life." -- Independent

"Reading Barnes's prose is a bit like peeling a rather elegant onion, as he gradually reveals secrets about his life through the medium of the natural world." ----BBC Wildlife magazine

"Ten Million Aliens is an impassioned hymn to the teeming multitude of organisms crowded alongside humanity on this ever-smaller planet... Clarity is the cardinal virtue of Ten Million Aliens. I can think of few nature writers who have worked harder to acquaint us with the unloved, the neglected and completely unknown." --Mark Cocker, The Spectator

"A rip-roaring trip through the wonders of the natural world...Engaging, irreverent and humourous throughout, this is a book which beguiles with its wit and easy style."--RareBirdAlert.co.uk

"A great, rollicking ride through the natural world...filled with anecdotes and amazing facts."--The Sunday Telegraph

"An epic journey...Dizzying natural history explored in all its marvellous, madcap majesty with wit, wisdom and wonder."--Daily Express --Daily Express

L'autore:

SIMON BARNES is a multi-award-winning sports and nature writer who wrote for the Times for over 30 years. He is also a novelist, horseman and the author of more than 20 books, including the bestselling How to be a Bad Birdwatcher and The Meaning of Sport (Short Books). He lives in Suffolk with his family and other animals.

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