Dark Banquet
Title | Dark Banquet PDF eBook |
Author | Bill Schutt |
Publisher | Crown |
Pages | 338 |
Release | 2009-10-06 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 0307381137 |
“A witty, scientifically accurate, and often intensely creepy exploration of sanguivorous creatures.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Bill Schutt turns whatever fear and disgust you may feel towards nature’s vampires into a healthy respect for evolution’s power to fill every conceivable niche.”—Carl Zimmer, author of Parasite Rex and Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life For centuries, blood feeders have inhabited our nightmares and horror stories, as well as the shadowy realms of scientific knowledge. In Dark Banquet, zoologist Bill Schutt takes us on a fascinating voyage into the world of some of nature’s strangest creatures—the sanguivores. Using a sharp eye and mordant wit, Schutt makes a remarkably persuasive case that blood feeders, from bats to bedbugs, are as deserving of our curiosity as warmer and fuzzier species are—and that many of them are even worthy of conservation. Examining the substance that sustains nature’s vampires, Schutt reveals just how little we actually knew about blood until well into the twentieth century. We revisit George Washington on his deathbed to learn how ideas about blood and the supposedly therapeutic value of bloodletting, first devised by the ancient Egyptians and Greeks, survived into relatively modern times. Dark Banquet details our dangerous and sometimes deadly encounters with ticks, chiggers, and mites (the latter implicated in Colony Collapse Disorder—currently devastating honey bees worldwide). Then there are the truly weird—vampire finches. And if you thought piranha were scary, some people believe that the candiru (or willy fish) is the best reason to avoid swimming in the Amazon. Enlightening and alarming, Dark Banquet peers into a part of the natural world to which we are, through our blood, inextricably linked.
Darkness and Dawn
Title | Darkness and Dawn PDF eBook |
Author | Frederic William Farrar |
Publisher | |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 1891 |
Genre | Rome |
ISBN |
Darkness and Dawn, Or, Scenes in the Days of Nero
Title | Darkness and Dawn, Or, Scenes in the Days of Nero PDF eBook |
Author | Frederic William Farrar |
Publisher | |
Pages | 380 |
Release | 1891 |
Genre | Rome |
ISBN |
Our Lady of Darkness
Title | Our Lady of Darkness PDF eBook |
Author | Bernard Capes |
Publisher | |
Pages | 406 |
Release | 1899 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Our Banquet
Title | Our Banquet PDF eBook |
Author | H. A. St. John |
Publisher | |
Pages | 576 |
Release | 1894 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Banquet for the Damned
Title | Banquet for the Damned PDF eBook |
Author | Adam Nevill |
Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 2014-03-13 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1447240944 |
Few believed Professor Coldwell could communicate with spirits. But in Scotland's oldest university town something has passed from darkness into light. Now, the young are being haunted by night terrors and those who are visited disappear. This is certainly not a place for outsiders, especially at night. So what chance do a rootless musician and burned-out explorer have of surviving their entanglement with an ageless supernatural evil and the ruthless cult that worships it? A chilling occult thriller from award-winning author Adam Nevill, Banquet for the Damned is both a homage to the great age of British ghost stories and a pacey modern tale of Devil worship and witchcraft.
An Exposition Upon the Epistle of Jude
Title | An Exposition Upon the Epistle of Jude PDF eBook |
Author | William Jenkyn |
Publisher | |
Pages | 854 |
Release | 1863 |
Genre | Bible |
ISBN |