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Arachnophobia has its origins deep in the human psyche and has been commemorated in film, in legend, in art and in nursery rhyme. This book has been designed as an instructive and entertaining antidote to the irrational fear of "creepy crawlies", commenting on some of the 35,000 known species of arachnid, including spiders which live at 22,000 feet on Mount Everest, spiders which fly and spiders which can be found under the sea.
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Paul Hillyard has been a spider specialist at London's Natural History Museum since 1974. Besides spiders, he is also interested in scorpions and ticks. He lives in London with his wife.
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Miss Muffet is not the only one who's ever been terrified by a spider. In fact, arachnophobia, or the fear of spiders, afflicts millions around the world. Some people are so tormented that they cannot ever relax, even at home, for fear they'll encounter a "creepy crawler." And yet, a love of spiders -- or at least a fascination with them -- touches just as many millions, perhaps more.
Though some spiders are dangerous, even deadly, most are perfectly harmless -- except to smaller bugs. In The Book of the Spider, naturalist Paul Hillyard examines the engaging world of arachnids and the humorous and frequently absurd ways in which humans respond to this most misunderstood of God's creatures.
Hillyard, an arachnologist at the Natural History Museum in London, covers the full spider spectrum, from folklore and myths to Aristotle's early scientific studies to Space Age spiders building webs in outer space.
There are more than 35,000 known spider species of
Though some spiders are dangerous, even deadly, most are perfectly harmless -- except to smaller bugs. In The Book of the Spider, naturalist Paul Hillyard examines the engaging world of arachnids and the humorous and frequently absurd ways in which humans respond to this most misunderstood of God's creatures.
Hillyard, an arachnologist at the Natural History Museum in London, covers the full spider spectrum, from folklore and myths to Aristotle's early scientific studies to Space Age spiders building webs in outer space.
There are more than 35,000 known spider species of
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- PublisherHutchinson
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0091776317
- ISBN 13 9780091776312
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- Number of pages208
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