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Item Details
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CIVILIZATION AND THE LIMPET
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| By: |
Martin Wells |
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Hardback |
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£14.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0738200174 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780738200170 |
| Publisher: |
INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US |
| Pub. date: |
6 October, 1998 |
| Pages: |
224 |
| Description: |
Zoologist Martin Wells captures with exquisite detail how limpets, like bees, navigate by the stars; how the sea urchin makes critical survival decisions every day; and how "deserted islands" teem with an incredible abundance of animal life. |
| Synopsis: |
Conceived on an ocean voyage from the shores of England to the Mediterranean Sea, Civilization and the Limpet, by distinguished zoologist and Cambridge professor Martin Wells, traces a fabulous journey, yielding insights into the natural world along the way. Written with both passion and irony, Civilization and the Limpet is much more than just a sea story; it is a tribute to the diversity and tenacity of life in the ocean. In the title chapter, Wells describes the seemingly unintelligent limpet, which, when taken from its natural route and displaced, overcomes almost overwhelming obstacles to find its way home again. He continues with other wonderful tales of marine life to uncover many strange, mysterious, and even dangerous survival strategies, all of them apt metaphors for the conflicts of our existence. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Perseus Books |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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