The Beauty of the Beastly by Natalie Angier

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197mm x 129mm x 19mm

Pages: 278

For most people cockroaches, spiders, worms, dung beetles and hyenas are not paragons of beauty in a natural world; in fact, many would prefer that they were not there at all. But in this book an American science-writer who has won the Pulitzer Prize champions the cause of these beasts - the lowlifes and the brutes - in a series of articles, most of which appeared in The New York Times, and which she has reworked into a single narrative.