SNAKE CHARMER, THE
Subtitle: A LIFE AND DEATH IN PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE
Publisher: Hyperion
Published: June 3, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781401302139
Subjects: NATURAL HISTORY, COUNTRY LIFE & PETS; Nature; Biography / Autobiography; Nature/Ecology; General; Nature / General; Biography; Herpetologists; Slowinski, Joseph; United States
Description: 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.