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The Earwig's Tail - A Modern Bestiary of Multi-legged Legends (Hardcover) Loot Price: R904
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The Earwig's Tail - A Modern Bestiary of Multi-legged Legends (Hardcover): May R. Berenbaum

The Earwig's Tail - A Modern Bestiary of Multi-legged Legends (Hardcover)

May R. Berenbaum

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Throughout the Middle Ages, enormously popular bestiaries presented people with descriptions of rare and unusual animals, typically paired with a moral or religious lesson. The real and the imaginary blended seamlessly in these books at the time, the existence of a rhinoceros was as credible as a unicorn or dragon. Although audiences now scoff at the impossibility of mythological beasts, there remains an extraordinary willingness to suspend skepticism and believe wild stories about nature, particularly about insects and their relatives in the "Phylum Arthropoda."

In "The Earwig s Tail," entomologist May Berenbaum and illustrator Jay Hosler draw on the powerful cultural symbols of these antiquated books to create a beautiful and witty bestiary of the insect world. Berenbaum s compendium of tales is an alphabetical tour of modern myths that humorously illuminates aerodynamically unsound bees, ear-boring earwigs, and libido-enhancing Spanish flies. She tracks down the germ of scientific truth that inspires each insect urban legend and shares some wild biological lessons, which, because of the amazing nature of the insect world, can be more fantastic than even the mythic misperceptions.

General

Imprint: Harvard University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: September 2009
First published: 2009
Authors: May R. Berenbaum
Dimensions: 210 x 140 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards / With printed dust jacket
Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 978-0-674-03540-9
Categories: Books > Sport & Leisure > Natural history, country life & pets > Wild animals > Insects & spiders > General
LSN: 0-674-03540-2
Barcode: 9780674035409

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