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Waiting for Aphrodite: Journeys into the Time Before Bones Paperback - 2000
by Sue Hubbell
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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.
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- Title Waiting for Aphrodite: Journeys into the Time Before Bones
- Author Sue Hubbell
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st
- Condition New
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin, Boston
- Date 2000-05-03
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- Bookseller's Inventory # ING9780618056842
- ISBN 9780618056842 / 061805684X
- Weight 0.73 lbs (0.33 kg)
- Dimensions 8.31 x 5.64 x 0.65 in (21.11 x 14.33 x 1.65 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98049811
- Dewey Decimal Code 592
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Summary
"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.
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I WENT TO THREE different colleges before I managed to snag an undergraduate degree, and considering how callow I was in those days, it is a wonder I learned anything at all.