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27%OFFRichard Kerridge - Cold Blood: Adventures with Reptiles and Amphibians - 9780099581390 - V9780099581390
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Cold Blood: Adventures with Reptiles and Amphibians

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Description for Cold Blood: Adventures with Reptiles and Amphibians Paperback. As a boy, Richard Kerridge loved to encounter wild creatures and catch them for his back-garden zoo. Besides capturing them, he wanted to understand them. What might it be like to be cold blooded, to sleep through the winter, to shed your skin and taste wafting chemicals on your tongue? Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: WNCK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 21. Weight in Grams: 250.

As a boy, Richard Kerridge loved to encounter wild creatures and catch them for his back-garden zoo. In a country without many large animals, newts caught his attention first of all, as the nearest he could get to the African wildlife he watched on television. There were Smooth Newts, mottled like the fighter planes in the comics he read, and the longed-for Great Crested Newt, with its huge golden eye.

The gardens of Richard and his reptile-crazed friends filled up with old bath tubs containing lizards, toads, Marsh Frogs, newts, Grass Snakes and, once, an Adder. Besides capturing ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099581390
SKU
V9780099581390
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-2

About Richard Kerridge
Richard Kerridge leads the MA in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. His essays have been published in Granta and Poetry Review, and he has twice won the BBC Wildlife Award for Nature Writing.

Reviews for Cold Blood: Adventures with Reptiles and Amphibians
Cold Blood shows us how much is to be gained from studying nature. A book that persuades anyone to try sampling life at first-hand rather than at second is much to be welcomed’
Steve Jones
Sunday Telegraph
In prose as effortless as a snake's progress, Richard Kerridge has written a wry, wise and refreshingly understated memoir
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