SWIMMING WITH THE PIRANHAS AT FEEDING TIME - MY LIFE DOING DUMB STUFF WITH ANIMALS - RICHARD CONNIFF

An award-winning nature writer takes us on a thrilling journey deep into the domains of strangeand often dangerousanimals.

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 figure. All in a days work, he flings chicken carcasses into piranha-infested waters to clock how quickly they disappear before diving in himself and then encounters a man stung by 120 different species of insects, ranking their pain the way Robert Parker ranks wine. Again and again, Conniff courts the most dangerous animals and lives to tell the tale. This collection offers a rare chance to accompany him on death-defying treks and see life through the lens of a bonafide field naturalist.

Hardcover, ISBN 9780393068931

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2009

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