The Snakebite Survivors' Club: Travels Among Serpents
by Seal, Jeremy
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0151005354
- ISBN 13
- 9780151005352
- Seller
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Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States
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Synopsis
Snakes are Jeremy Seal's fascination-and his greatest fear. In an attempt to overcome his phobia, he undertakes a voyage to Australia, Africa, India, and America in search of the most notorious and deadly species, and to meet the people who live among them. He encounters a Kenyan snake man, whose entire life seems like a preparation for a bite from the terrible black mamba; witch doctors, who use snakes as instruments of vengeance; frightened Australian convicts; and even a preacher in the Deep South, who uses his church's rattlesnakes to try to murder his wife. Along the way Seal recounts amazing scientific snake lore, legends, and historical facts. An erudite but highly entertaining narrative in the English travel-writing tradition, and a finalist for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, The Snakebite Survivors' Club tells a funny, gruesomely fascinating account of the world of snakes and the people they repel, mesmerize, and sometimes kill.
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- Bookseller
- Z & Z Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005526
- Title
- The Snakebite Survivors' Club: Travels Among Serpents
- Author
- Seal, Jeremy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0151005354
- ISBN 13
- 9780151005352
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1999
- Size
- 8vo.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Herpetology;
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