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An extraordinary second book from the author of Stars Beneath the Sea, which won him the accolade: “Bill Bryson underwater.”
This is the funny and touching true story of a menagerie of eccentric ecologists who spent forty summers at a stunning marine lake in southwest Ireland. Among the stars of the book are the marine creatures – sea urchins that won’t dine unless they wear a hat, otters that steal experiments, and worms that will mate only by order of the moon. Their odd behaviour is matched only by that of the ecologists themselves, whose antics and interactions with their Irish neighbours are lovingly described with Norton’s keen eye for the absurd.
This is the funny and touching true story of a menagerie of eccentric ecologists who spent forty summers at a stunning marine lake in southwest Ireland. Among the stars of the book are the marine creatures – sea urchins that won’t dine unless they wear a hat, otters that steal experiments, and worms that will mate only by order of the moon. Their odd behaviour is matched only by that of the ecologists themselves, whose antics and interactions with their Irish neighbours are lovingly described with Norton’s keen eye for the absurd.
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Trevor Norton is professor of Marine Biology at the University of Liverpool and Director of the Port Erin Marine Laboratory on the Isle of Man.
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“Norton’s agile prose is burnished with faintly mocking humour, and he has the natural storyteller’s eye for detail.” –Daily Telegraph
“Norton writes with wit and a fine eye for the poetry in the scientific work.” –Guardian
“Norton writes with wit and a fine eye for the poetry in the scientific work.” –Guardian
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