| #1059266 in Books | Reaktion Books | 2005-11-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.50 x.70 x5.29l,.84 | File type: PDF | 216 pages | ||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Who knew a taxidermied snake can still kill people?|By lyndonbrecht|I discovered the "Animal" series by accident while browsing my local library, and I'm reading earlier titles, of which this is one. This book has a good deal of natural history, but as usual in the series it's mostly the idea of the snake, in myth, the arts and so on. It's a fairly fast read, even while being||
"Reaktion's series of 'Animal' books . . . is forming a large and fascinating library of arcane knowledge about various species' physiology and, more, about the cultural significance they've accrued since humans first joined them on this planet, 15,
A snake smells with its tongue, hears with its flesh, and breathes under the sand with one lung; it can copulate for days with one snake or with fifty at once; it has infrared radar; and it can induce spontaneous bleeding if threatened. With all these qualities, it is easy to see how snakes have such varied associations in cultures around the world: while celebrated in tattoos and tales, and for medicinal benefits, snakes are also so universally feared that they co...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Snake (Animal) | Drake Stutesman. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
