The Snakebite Survivor's Club: Travels Among Serpents
by Seal, Jeremy
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine copy in fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0330348337
- ISBN 13
- 9780330348331
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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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- Abacus Bookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BOOKS079128I
- Title
- The Snakebite Survivor's Club: Travels Among Serpents
- Author
- Seal, Jeremy
- Illustrator
- Illus. with photos
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine copy in fine dust jacket
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0330348337
- ISBN 13
- 9780330348331
- Publisher
- Picador
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1999
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