“Ms. Eilperin regales us with the facts with all the smoothness of a skilled storyteller. . . .
Amy Stewart is right. When it comes to “bugs” we are seriously outnumbered. According to her math, the ratio runs about 200 million to one.
I don’t know. I am torn over The Secret World of Slugs and Snails: Life in the Very Slow Lane. On the one hand, it is an encyclopedia of snail and slug information.
The wilderness is appealing to most people. At least, most appreciate its beauty and its unknown qualities, if not its danger and isolation.
Few of us who live “in the lower 48” have any idea about what it is like to live in Alaska.
