La bocca dell'inferno
- 377pages
- 14 heures de lecture
Bill Schutt Ordre des livres (chronologique)
Bill Schutt explore les aspects fascinants et souvent négligés du monde naturel. Ancien professeur de biologie et chercheur en musée, il apporte une profonde expertise scientifique à son écriture. Ses œuvres abordent des sujets peu conventionnels, du cannibalisme dans le règne animal à l'histoire naturelle du cœur. Schutt a le don de rendre les concepts scientifiques complexes accessibles à un large public grâce à une narration captivante.
Wellcome Collection: Eat Me
A Natural and Unnatural History of Cannibalism
- 288pages
- 11 heures de lecture
Cannibalism. It's the last, greatest taboo: the stuff of urban legends and ancient myths, airline crashes and Captain Cook. But while we might get a thrill at the thought of the black widow spider's gruesome mating habits or the tragic fate of the 19th-century Donner Party pioneers, today cannibalism belongs to history - or, at the very least, the realm of the weird, the rare and the very far away. Doesn't it? Here, zoologist Bill Schutt digs his teeth into the subject to find an answer that is as surprising as it is unsettling
Dark Banquet
- 325pages
- 12 heures de lecture
A witty and informative look inside the world of animals that feed on blood examines the ecological roles and life cycles of the vampire bat, leeches, ticks, mites, bedbugs, and a feared vampire fish known as the candiru.