| Waiting for Aphrodite: Journeys Into the Time Before Bones Contributor(s): Hubbell, Sue (Author) |
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ISBN: 061805684X ISBN-13: 9780618056842 Publisher: Mariner Books OUR PRICE: $18.04 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2000 Annotation: In this fascinating book, Hubbell journeys into the remarkable lives of the little-known creatures that really run the world--the animals without backbones, including one of the most elusive and enigmatic of all, "Aphrodite" the sea mouse. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Nature | Essays - Nature | Animals - Marine Life - Science | Life Sciences - Biology |
| Dewey: 592 |
| LCCN: 98049811 |
| Physical Information: 0.65" H x 5.64" W x 8.31" (0.73 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: We humans are a minority of giants, stumbling around in the world of little things, Sue Hubbell writes in this marvelous book. Each of these little things has a complicated and special way of getting on in the world, different from ours and different from one another's. In Waiting for Aphrodite she explores the ways of sponges and sea urchins, horseshoe crabs and the sea mouse known as Aphrodite -- as well as our ways. She takes us on a journey through the mysteries of time -- geological, biological, and personal -- as she writes of the evolution of life on this planet and the evolution of her own life: her childhood next to a Michigan graveyard; the three colleges where she learned three things; her twenty-five years keeping bees on a farm in the Ozarks; her move to a strange little house in a small Maine town, the place I wanted to grow old in. And in the tide pools and ocean waters there she discovered a whole new world, the world of little things that inspired this book. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hubbell, Sue: - Sue Hubbell was the author of eight books, including A Country Year and New York Times Notable Book A Book of Bees. She wrote for the New Yorker, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Smithsonian, and Time, and was a frequent contributor to the "Hers" column of the New York Times. |