DEADLY KINGDOM: THE BOOK OF DANGEROUS ANIMALS
Book ID/图书代码： 06580010B35453
English Summary/英文概要： How does a tiny box jellyfish, with no brain and little control over where it goes in the water, manage to kill a full-grown man? What harm have hippos been known to inflict on humans, and why? What makes our closest cousin, the chimpanzee, the most dangerous of all apes to encounter in the wild?
In this elegantly illustrated, often darkly funny compendium of animal predation, Gordon Grice, hailed by Michael Pollan as “a fresh, strange, and wonderful new voice in American nature writing,” presents findings that are by turns surprising, humorous, and horrifying. Personally obsessed by both the menace and beauty of animals since he was six years old and a deadly cougar wandered onto his family’s farm, Grice now reaps a lifetime of study in this unique survey—at once a reading book and a resource.
Categorized by kind and informed throughout by the author’s unsentimental view of the natural order and our place in it, here are the hard-to-stomach, hard-to-resist facts and legends of animal encounters. Whether it’s the elephant that collided with a fuel tanker and lived (the tanker exploded), the turn-of-the-century household cure for a copperhead bite (douse the infected area in kerosene), or the shark that terrorized the New Jersey coastline for a summer (later inspiring the film Jaws), everything you’ve ever wanted to know about animals but were afraid to ask is included in this hair-raising, heart-racing volume. By turns wondrous, mordant, and sobering, this book is ultimately a celebration of the animal world—in all its perilous glory—by a writer who’s been heralded by The New York Times for his ability to combine “the observations of a naturalist with a dry, homespun philosopher’s wit.”
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 小小一個看似無害的箱型水母ㄧ旦潛入水中，能夠輕易奪去人類的生命，到底水母是如何達到此等殺傷力?
河馬對人類最可能造成的傷害是？又為何對人類充滿敵意？
黑猩猩是人類的近親，但為什麼卻是所有猿類中，人類最該保持距離的動物？
大象和油罐車相撞，結果油罐車爆炸，大象卻沒事…
被美洲腹蛇咬到，不用送醫院，在家就可以自我解決..
造成紐澤西海岸大恐慌，最後成為電影《大白鯊》拍攝靈感的的鯊魚攻擊事件…
被譽為自然寫作明日之星的Grice，自6歲在他家農田遇到一隻美洲獅開始，便對動物身上同時存在的危險與美感感到著迷不已，自此一生一頭掉入自然研究調查之中，並成就了The Red Hourglass與此書。(KC)
Awards/获奖情况：自然寫作的明日之星 洛杉磯時報以及紐約公立圖書館『年度好書』獎得主最新力作
★ 洛杉磯時報以及紐約公立圖書館『年度好書』獎得主
★ 紐約時報等8大暢銷排行榜第一名《食物無罪》作者Michael Pollan評為 ：「自然寫作的明日之星」。
★ 紐約時報：帶著自然學家的敏銳目光、文字散發出哲學家的機鋒卻又平易近人
★ 紐約時報暢銷書《享受吧!一個人的旅行，Eat, Pray, Love》作者Elizabeth Gilbert：這本書充滿知識性，對一個40歲的家居女人來說，閱讀此書彷彿進行一場精采刺激的探險，雖然有點小可怕，但感覺相當過癮
Review
“A wonderful, slightly terrifying, utterly captivating encounter with the animal world—not quite like anything I’ve ever read before.”---紐約時報排行榜暢銷書《享受吧!一個人的旅行》作者Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love and Committed
“Did he say repugnatorial gland? What a wealth of information Gordon Grice is, and what a fine, beguiling writer. This book is a must for anyone even remotely thinking of getting a monkey, a sea lion, or, heaven forbid, a dog.”---David Sedaris
“Deadly Kingdom is an engagingly original field guide to the venomous, the sharp-clawed, the infectious, and the downright predatory. It’s a witty, fascinating, and playfully macabre read.”---David Baron, author of The Beast in the Garden
“Deadly Kingdom is sometimes gory, always gorgeous, and really great. Gordon Grice is a warm and funny guide, his fingers always on the facts. There are amazing stories here, fascinating people and places, but above all, there are the animals we thought we knew, and the ones we’ve never heard of: hagfish, guinea worms, eyelash vipers, blister beetles. You’ll never go barefoot in the barnyard again.”---Bill Roorbach, author of Temple Stream: A Rural Odyssey
“Deadly Kingdom makes it clear that you are not on top of the food chain.” – Pamela Nagami, M.D., author of Bitten: True Medical Stories of Bites and Stings
About the Author/作者介绍： Gordon Grice第一本著作The Red Hourglass〈Amazon 4.4 out of 5 stars 〉即獲得洛杉磯時報以及紐約公立圖書館『年度好書』獎〈Best Books of the Year〉。他的文章並曾被蒐錄於The Best American Essays《美國最佳散文選》中。
Format:电子手稿
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