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The snake charmer : a life and death in pursuit of knowledge / Jamie James.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- James, Jamie, 1951-2020.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slowinski, Joseph.
- Herpetologists--United States--Biography.
- Herpetologists.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 260 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Hyperion, [2008]
- Summary:
- On September 11, 2001, while exploring a Burmese jungle, Dr. Joe Slowinski was bitten by a krait, one of the most poisonous snakes in the world. This narrative nonfiction details Slowinski's entire life as an expert on poisonous snakes and the expedition that cost him his life.
- Contents:
- Many-Banded Krait 1
- The Snake Charmer 9
- The Expedition 157
- Sources and Methods 241
- A Note on Place Names 243.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9781401302139
- 1401302130
- OCLC:
- 166372889
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