Book ID: CBB442982535

Venom Doc: The Edgiest, Darkest, Strangest Natural History Memoir Ever (2016)

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Bryan Grieg Fry (Author)


Arcade Publishing


Publication Date: 2016
Physical Details: 316 pages
Language: English

Steve Irwin meets David Attenborough in this jaw-dropping account of studying the world’s most venomous creatures. Venomologist Bryan Grieg Fry has one of the most dangerous jobs on earth: he works with its deadliest creatures. He’s been bitten by twenty-six venomous snakes, been stung by three stingrays, and survived a near-fatal scorpion sting while deep in the Amazon jungle. He’s received more than four hundred stitches and broken twenty-three bones, including breaking his back in three places, and had to learn how to walk again. But when you research only the venom you yourself have collected, the adventures—and danger—never stop. Imagine a three-week-long first date in Siberia catching venomous water shrews with the daughter of a Russian war hero; a wedding attended by Eastern European prime ministers and their machine-gun-wielding bodyguards and snakes; or leading a team to Antarctica that results in the discovery of four new species of venomous octopi. Bryan’s discoveries have radically reshaped views on venom evolution and contributed to the creation of venom-based life-saving medications. In pursuit of venom, he has traveled the world collecting samples from Indonesia to Mexico, Germany, and Brazil. He’s encountered venomous creatures of all kinds, including the Malaysian king cobra, the Komodo dragon, and the brush-footed trapdoor spider. Bryan recounts his lifelong passion for studying the world’s most venomous creatures in this outlandish, captivating memoir, where he and danger are never far apart.

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Review Peter Hobbins (2016) Review of "The Library at the End of the World: Natural Science and Its Illustrators". Historical Records of Australian Science (pp. 92-102). unapi

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Jason Finch
Beverley Wood
Richard S. Ellis
Lynne Jones
Robert S. Church
John R. Bowie
Concepts
Memoirs
Industrial archaeology
Psychiatry
Land transportation
Mental disorders and diseases
Biographies
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
19th century
20th century, late
20th century, early
18th century
Places
United States
Ohio (U.S.)
London (England)
Germany
Canada
Australia
Institutions
U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record
Southern Pacific Railroad Company
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
United States. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Ill.
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (United States)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
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