9780618056842
Waiting for Aphrodite: Journeys into the Time Before Bones
Sue Hubbell
ISBN 13: 9780618056842
Publisher: Mariner Books
Publication Date: 2000
Binding: Softcover
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"We humans are a minority of giants, stumbling around in the world of little things," Sue Hubbell writes in this marvelous book. Each of these little things "has a complicated and special way of getting on in the world, different from ours and different from one another's." In Waiting for Aphrodite she explores the ways of sponges and sea urchins, horseshoe crabs and the sea mouse known as Aphrodite -- as well as our ways. She takes us on a journey through the mysteries of time -- geological, biological, and personal -- as she writes of the evolution of life on this planet and the evolution of her own life: her childhood next to a Michigan graveyard; the three colleges where she "learned three things"; her twenty-five years keeping bees on a farm in the Ozarks; her move to a "strange little house" in a small Maine town, "the place I wanted to grow old in." And in the tide pools and ocean waters there she discovered a whole new world, the world of little things that inspired this book.
Review:
Naturalist Hubbell (Broadsides from Other Orders: A Book of Bugs, LJ 3/1/93) investigates the little-known world of invertebrates: camel crickets, horseshoe crabs, spiders, millipedes, bees, fireflies, pill bugs, sponges, corals, earthworms, sea urchins, and Aphrodite, the sea mouse. Hubbell interviews the experts on each species, and, combining their knowledge with her own reading and study, presents the biology and behavior of these animals in interesting, accessible, and well-documented essays. (A bibliography follows each chapter.) Hubbell also uses these animals' lives and histories to explore the larger issues of diversity, evolution, taxonomy, and conservation of species. Complemented by black-and-white drawings, these thoughtful essays will fascinate readers who enjoy well-written natural history. Recommended for all libraries. Sue O'Brien, Downers Grove P.L., IL
Library Journal, 3/1/99
Review:"Hubbell is a master of the science writer's necessary art of explaining--what is taxonomy, cladistics, punctuated equilibrium (or punk eek); what distinguishes an animal from a plant."
David Walton, New York Times Book Review, 07/13/1999
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