| This is a book of vivid factual accounts of man-killing animals on land and sea and of man sencounters with.them.It exolores the domainof fear.There are discussions of deadly crea-tures of the ocean, ranging from sharks to seasnakes and bizarre highlypoisonous fish thatswim througn coral reefs like mages from afeverish dream. Early chapters chronicle sharkattacks ana explore legends, of giant squidDulling met from ships with their tentacles.and sea seroents such as the monster seen inthe harbor of Gloucester Massachusetts, byhundreds of people. Michael Jenkinson goes on to describebloody encounters between grizzly bears andmountainmen in the American Rockies: theways of man-eating tigers and leopards in In-dia and of lions in Africa the dreaded wolf ofGevaudan that ravaged the French country-side in the eighteenth oentury; the horror ofbeing stalked by a crocodile in the jungles ofcentral Africa. The book is about killer bees and the deadly,crushing coils of the anaconda. It takes onefrom the Hopi snake dances of Arizona to fun-aamentalist rattlesnake sects in Appalachiaand to the sacred cobra cults of India Here one can read the stones of a man whoactually was swallowed by a Whale. and livedof the lumbering hippopami that when en-raged take hundreds of ives in Africa every year: and of the dangerous experiences of the.author himself, as well as other outdoorsmen,with giant brown bears in Alaska. " Within. a framework of carefully researchedzoology, mythology, anthropology, and history,Michael Jenkinson s primary business is story- telling.This is a volume of adventures on many continents and seas,tales that might be told around a fading campfire after the unexpected snap of a dry branch out there in the darkness. |
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