The Compleat Cockroach: A Comprehensive Guide to the Most Despised ( and Least Understood) Creature on Earth - Softcover

Gordon, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0898158532 ISBN 13: 9780898158533

Publisher: Ten Speed Press, 1996

Synopsis

everything you ever wanted to know, and then some, about the different types of cockroaches

About this title

Review:

"Ask yourself how you feel about cockroaches. Do you shiver at the mere mention of their name? Could you kill one with your bare hand? Would you rather not be talking about this?" Even if the answer to all these questions from David George Gordon's The Compleat Cockroach is "EEUGHH" (meaning "yes, indeed"), you might want to get this book for your lawyer, landlord, or 10-year-old. Strong-stomached adults will find it a trove of information on every aspect of cockroach biology, control strategies, literary cockroaches, and cockroach song and dance--not to mention cockroaches in art, as pets, or (gulp) as cuisine.

From Publishers Weekly:

"Salted cockroaches are said to have an agreeable flavour, which is apparent in certain popular sauces." Well, maybe not that popular. This quote from an 1886 book on The Structure and Life History of the Cockroach is part of The Compleat Cockroach, David George Gordon's look at the biology, behavior, sociology and culture (Kafka, Don Marquis, Donald Harrington, Daniel Evan Weiss) of blattids. And for those less interested in the lives of cockroaches, there's also an extensive section on exterminating them.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Ten Speed Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0898158532
• ISBN 13: 9780898158533
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192