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The Book of Animal Ignorance: Everything You Think You Know Is Wrong
by Mitchinson, John, Lloyd, John
- Used
- Condition
- Used - Like New
- ISBN 10
- 030739493X
- ISBN 13
- 9780307394934
- Seller
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Frederick, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Crown. Used - Like New. Like New condition. Like New dust jacket. A near perfect copy that may have very minor cosmetic defects.
Synopsis
Fast on the heels of the New York Times bestseller The Book of General Ignorance comes The Book of Animal Ignorance, a fun, fact-lled bestiary that is sure to delight animal lovers everywhere. Arranged alphabetically from aardvark to worm, here are one hundred of the most interesting members of the animal kingdom explained, dissected, and illustrated, with the trademark wit and wisdom of John Lloyd and John Mitchinson.Did you know, for instance, that- when a young albatross takes wing, it may stay aloft for ten years- vampire bat saliva--unsurprisingly, when you think about it--is the source of the world's most powerful blood thinning drug, appropriately called draculin- bombardier beetles fire a boiling chemical spray out of their rears at 300 pulses per second- a bald eagle's feathers weigh twice as much as its bones- a giant tortoise recently died at the documented age of 255- octopuses are dexterous enough to unscrew tops from jars- spider silk is so light that a strand long enough to circle the world would weigh as much as a bar of soap?So meet the water bears that can live in suspension for hundreds of years, the parasite carried by your cat that makes men grumpy and women promiscuous, and the woodlouse that drinks through its bottom. Marvel at elephants that walk on tiptoe, pigs that shine in the dark, and woodpeckers that have ears on the ends of their tongues.If you still think a pangolin is a musical instrument, that hyenas are dogs, or that sheep are pointless and stupid, The Book of Animal Ignorance has arrived just in time.From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- Wonder Book
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- V17B-03517
- Title
- The Book of Animal Ignorance: Everything You Think You Know Is Wrong
- Author
- Mitchinson, John, Lloyd, John
- Book Condition
- New
- Binding
- Hardback
- ISBN 10
- 030739493X
- ISBN 13
- 9780307394934
- Publisher
- Crown
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- This edition first published
- 2008-09-02
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About the Seller
Wonder Book
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Frederick, Maryland
About Wonder Book
With 3 stores less than 1 hour outside the DC/Metropolitan area (1 in Gaithersburg, 1 in Frederick and 1 in Hagerstown, MD), we have the largest selection of books in the tri-state area. Wonder Book and Video has been in business since 1980 and online since 1997. We have over 1 Million books for sale on our website and another 1 Million books for sale in our 3 locations. We have a very active online inventory and as such, we can receive multiple orders for the same item. We fill those orders on a first come first serve basis, but will refund promptly any items that are out of stock. Since 1980 it has always been about the books. ALL kinds of books from 95 cent children\'s paperbacks to five figure rare and collectibles. A merging of the old and new is where we started, and it is where we are today. Our retail stores have always been places where a reader can rush in looking for a title needed for a term paper that is due the next day, or where bibliophiles can get lost \"in the stacks\" for as long as they wish. In 2002 USAToday recognized us as \"1 of 10 Great Old Bookstores\", and we have been featured in numerous other newspaper and TV stories including Washington Post and CSpan.
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