Gordon Grice

Exactly the book for every young explorer who loves finding stuff in nature and bringing it home. Cabinet of Curiosities is a lavishly illustrated introduction to the wonders of natural history and the joys of being an amateur scientist and collector. Nature writer Gordon Grice, who started his first cabinet of curiosities at age six when he found a skunk’s skull, explains how scientists classify all living things through the Linnaeus system; how to tell real gold from fool’s gold; how to preserve butterflies, crab shells, feathers, a robin’s egg, spider specimens, and honeycombs; how to identify seashells; the difference between antlers and horns; how to read animal tracks. And then, what to do with your specimens, including how to build a cabinet of curiosities out of common household objects, like a desk organizer or a box for fishing tackle.

Collecting and Understanding the Wonders of the Natural World

Cabinet of Curiosities

Grice explores the violence inherent in the animals near his rural Oklahoma home, describing the behavior of spiders, insects, and snakes

Lives of the Predators

The Red Hourglass

Exhibition Catalogue for Architecture in Perspective 20, an international juried competition of architectural drawing.

The 16th Annual International Competition of Architectural Illustrators

Architecture in Perspective

Kevin J. Kennedy

Jeff Strand

Thomas Malafarina

Nicholas Paschall

Gary Bueller

Renee Wiseman

Timothy Wiseman

Are you tired of the same old zombie stories? In our second volume, Stitched Smile Publications presents more of your favorite authors - and some debuting authors! Each story takes you through the author's point of view through each ultimate battle for dominance. What do YOU think would happen if we pit your favorite monsters against a horde of zombies. Choose your side wisely!

Monsters Vs Zombies

Unleashed

Consider, if you can, the case of Jacob Fowler, who heard what he thought was the sound of his own skull cracking between the jaws of a grizzly bear - only to discover that it was. Or the Arizonan jogger who ran a mile back to her car with a rabid fox clamped to her arm before driving to hospital for live-saving inoculations. Or the woman who was attacked by a hyena, dragged from her tent by her face and survived to tell of her ordeal. The dangers of the animal kingdom are the stuff of legend but the reality of man's vulnerability and of nature's savage power is far more various, improbable and chilling than even the most active imagination would fear. In this unique work of nature writing, you will encounter the most formidable predators on land and sea - as well as the most overlooked, bizarre and inventive hazards that mother nature has to offer. Meet the cougar that can leap 40 feet and clear 8-foot fences with a fully-grown deer in its jaws, the tapeworm that's been known to grow as long as 82 feet in the human gut and the elephant that single-handedly destroyed an oil tanker. Drawing on an enormous host of true encounters between man and beast, this is the world's most authoritative compendium of animal attacks on human beings. With mordant wit and expert timing, Gordon Grice provides a gripping journey to the dark side of the animal kingdom and a celebration of its humbling, savage glory. (Originally published in hardback as The Book of Deadly Animals.)

Gordon Grice

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