Dark Banquet: Blood and the Curious Lives of Blood-Feeding Creatures
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780307381125 (0307381129)
Publish date: October 14th 2008
Publisher: Harmony
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
Category:
Paranormal,
Non Fiction,
History,
Science,
Environment,
Nature,
Natural History,
Biology,
Science Nature,
Animals,
Vampires
A really well-written non-fiction novel about vampire bats, leeches, bed bugs, and the substance they all feed on. The biological and anatomical information is written in language easy to decipher and digest even for those of us not well-educated in the fields of study, and the author makes just the...
What a fun, albeit squirm-inducing book. The chapters about bats were easier to read than the chapter about bedbugs. *shudder* Schutt is genuinely funny and irreverent. The book is a delight, if you like this sort of thing.
I am having a difficult time doing an overall rating for this book. I really enjoyed the first part of this book, on vampire bats - that gets 5 stars. Having worked with them in the past, I found his observations to be spot-on, and I discovered many more fascinating insights on them as well. Schutt ...
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