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Cold Blood - Adventures with Reptiles and Amphibians (Paperback) Loot Price: R279
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Cold Blood - Adventures with Reptiles and Amphibians (Paperback): Richard Kerridge

Cold Blood - Adventures with Reptiles and Amphibians (Paperback)

Richard Kerridge

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As a boy, Richard Kerridge loved to encounter wild creatures and catch them for his back-garden zoo. In a country without many large animals, newts caught his attention first of all, as the nearest he could get to the African wildlife he watched on television. There were Smooth Newts, mottled like the fighter planes in the comics he read, and the longed-for Great Crested Newt, with its huge golden eye. The gardens of Richard and his reptile-crazed friends filled up with old bath tubs containing lizards, toads, Marsh Frogs, newts, Grass Snakes and, once, an Adder. Besides capturing them, he wanted to understand them. What might it be like to be cold blooded, to sleep through the winter, to shed your skin and taste wafting chemicals on your tongue? Richard has continued to ask these questions during a lifetime of fascinated study. Part natural-history guide to these animals, part passionate nature writing, and part personal story, Cold Blood is an original and perceptive memoir about our relationship with nature. Through close observation, it shows how even the suburbs can seem wild when we get close to these thrilling, weird and uncanny animals.

General

Imprint: Vintage
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: May 2015
Authors: Richard Kerridge
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - B-format
Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 978-0-09-958139-0
Categories: Books > Sport & Leisure > Natural history, country life & pets > Wild animals > General
LSN: 0-09-958139-6
Barcode: 9780099581390

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