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Download or read book Dark Banquet written by Bill Schutt and published by Crown. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A witty, scientifically accurate, and often intensely creepy exploration of sanguivorous creatures.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Bill Schutt turns whatever fear and disgust you may feel towards nature’s vampires into a healthy respect for evolution’s power to fill every conceivable niche.”—Carl Zimmer, author of Parasite Rex and Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life For centuries, blood feeders have inhabited our nightmares and horror stories, as well as the shadowy realms of scientific knowledge. In Dark Banquet, zoologist Bill Schutt takes us on a fascinating voyage into the world of some of nature’s strangest creatures—the sanguivores. Using a sharp eye and mordant wit, Schutt makes a remarkably persuasive case that blood feeders, from bats to bedbugs, are as deserving of our curiosity as warmer and fuzzier species are—and that many of them are even worthy of conservation. Examining the substance that sustains nature’s vampires, Schutt reveals just how little we actually knew about blood until well into the twentieth century. We revisit George Washington on his deathbed to learn how ideas about blood and the supposedly therapeutic value of bloodletting, first devised by the ancient Egyptians and Greeks, survived into relatively modern times. Dark Banquet details our dangerous and sometimes deadly encounters with ticks, chiggers, and mites (the latter implicated in Colony Collapse Disorder—currently devastating honey bees worldwide). Then there are the truly weird—vampire finches. And if you thought piranha were scary, some people believe that the candiru (or willy fish) is the best reason to avoid swimming in the Amazon. Enlightening and alarming, Dark Banquet peers into a part of the natural world to which we are, through our blood, inextricably linked.
Book Synopsis Darkness and Dawn by : Frederic William Farrar
Download or read book Darkness and Dawn written by Frederic William Farrar and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Last Banquet by : Jonathan Grimwood
Download or read book The Last Banquet written by Jonathan Grimwood and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set against the backdrop of the Enlightenment, the delectable decadence of Versailles, and the French Revolution, The Last Banquet is an intimate epic that tells the story of one man’s quest to know the world through its many and marvelous flavors. Jean-Marie d’Aumout will try anything once, with consequences that are at times mouthwatering and at others fascinatingly macabre (Three Snake Bouillabaisse anyone? Or perhaps some pickled Wolf's Heart?). When he is not obsessively searching for a new taste d’Aumout is a fast friend, a loving husband, a doting father, and an imaginative lover. He befriends Ben Franklin, corresponds with the Marquis de Sade and Voltaire, becomes a favorite at Versailles, thwarts a peasant uprising, improves upon traditional French methods of contraception, plays an instrumental role in the Corsican War of Independence, and constructs France’s finest menagerie. But d’Aumout’s every adventurous turn is decided by his at times dark obsession to know all the world’s flavors before that world changes irreversibly. As gripping as Patrick Suskind’s Perfume, as gloriously ambitious as Daniel Kehlman’s Measuring the World, and as prize-worthy as Andrew Miller’s Pure, The Last Banquet is a hugely appealing novel about food and flavor, about the Age of Reason and the ages of man, and our obsessions and about how, if we manage to survive them, they can bequeath us wisdom and consolation in old age.
Book Synopsis Our Lady of Darkness by : Bernard Capes
Download or read book Our Lady of Darkness written by Bernard Capes and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Our Banquet written by H. A. St. John and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Banquet for Hungry Ghosts by : Ying Chang Compestine
Download or read book A Banquet for Hungry Ghosts written by Ying Chang Compestine and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-10-27 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to Chinese tradition, those who die hungry or unjustly come back to haunt the living. Some are appeased with food. But not all ghosts are successfully mollified. In this chilling collection of stories,Ying Chang Compestine takes readers on a journey through time and across different parts of China. From the building of the GreatWall in 200 BCE to themodern day of iPods, hungry ghosts continue to torment those who wronged them. At once a window into the history and culture of China and an ode to Chinese cuisine, this assortment of frightening tales—complete with historical notes and delectable recipes—will both scare and satiate!
Book Synopsis Darkness and Dawn, Or, Scenes in the Days of Nero by : Frederic William Farrar
Download or read book Darkness and Dawn, Or, Scenes in the Days of Nero written by Frederic William Farrar and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis An Exposition Upon the Epistle of Jude by : William Jenkyn
Download or read book An Exposition Upon the Epistle of Jude written by William Jenkyn and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Gathering Darkness by : Morgan Rhodes
Download or read book Gathering Darkness written by Morgan Rhodes and published by Falling Kingdoms. This book was released on 2014 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prince Magnus must choose between family and justice as his father, the cruel King Gaius, sets out to conquer all of Mytica by tracking down an ancient, storied magic known as the Kindred.
Book Synopsis A Banquet of Consequences by : Elizabeth George
Download or read book A Banquet of Consequences written by Elizabeth George and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 785 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unspoken secrets and buried lies of one family rise to the surface in this stunning crime drama featuring Scotland Yard members Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth George. As Inspector Thomas Lynley investigates the London angle of an ever more darkly disturbing case, his partner, Barbara Havers, is looking behind the peaceful façade of country life to discover a twisted world of desire and deceit. The suicide of William Goldacre is devastating to those left behind who will have to deal with its unintended consequences—could there be a link between the young man's leap from a Dorset cliff and a horrific poisoning in Cambridge? After various issues with her department, Barbara Havers is desperate to redeem herself. So when a past encounter gives her a connection to the unsolved Cambridge murder, Barbara begs Thomas Lynley to let her pursue the crime, knowing one mistake could mean the end of her career. Full of shocks, intensity, and suspense from the first page to the last, A Banquet of Consequences reveals both Lynley and Havers under mounting pressure to solve a case both complicated and deeply disturbing.
Download or read book Sermons written by Charles Wadsworth and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Orpheus written by Annie Fields and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dark Banquet written by Lincoln Child and published by New York : St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Collected Poems: Enchanted island and other poems. New poems. Sherwood. Tales of the Mermaid tavern. New poems: Watchword of the fleet, etc by : Alfred Noyes
Download or read book Collected Poems: Enchanted island and other poems. New poems. Sherwood. Tales of the Mermaid tavern. New poems: Watchword of the fleet, etc written by Alfred Noyes and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For contents and other editions, see Author Catalog.
Book Synopsis Enchanted island and other poems. New poems. Sherwood. Tales of the Mermaid tavern. New poems: Watchword of the fleet, etc by : Alfred Noyes
Download or read book Enchanted island and other poems. New poems. Sherwood. Tales of the Mermaid tavern. New poems: Watchword of the fleet, etc written by Alfred Noyes and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Enchanted Island Sherwood Tales of the Mermaid Tavern New Poems.
Book Synopsis Collected Poems: Volume Two by : Alfred Noyes
Download or read book Collected Poems: Volume Two written by Alfred Noyes and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-04 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Collected Poems: Volume Two" by Alfred Noyes. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book COLLECTED POEMS written by ALFRED NOYES and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
