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BOOK
Title Ten million aliens / Simon Barnes
Author Barnes, Simon
Imprint London : Short, 2015

LIBRARY / MAP CALL NUMBER STATUS MESSAGE
 Bellevue:Vuxen facklitteratur (500-599)  590 engelska    CHECK SHELF  ---
Edition Paperback edition
Descript 480 pages illustrations 20 cm
Note Originally published: 2014
Includes bibliographical references and index
"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."--Publisher description
Subject Naturvetenskap
Biologi
Djur
Animals
Animals.
Earth (Planet) -- Miscellanea
Earth (Planet)
Trivia and miscellanea.
Classmark 590
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ISBN/ISSN 9781780722436 (paperback)
1780722435 (paperback)
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