America's snake : the rise and fall of the timber rattlesnake / Ted Levin ; illustrations by Alexandra Westrich.
Publisher: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: xxvi, 481 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780226040646 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 022604064X (cloth : alk. paper)
- 597.96/38 23
- QL666.O69 L495 2016
Contents:
Title Notes:
My life with timber rattlesnakes -- How cool is this: an introduction to timber rattlesnakes -- Egress: the dangers of leaving home -- A quirky subculture -- Quasimodo in the Blue Hills -- Live free or die -- Zero at the bone -- A long, muscular tube -- Interlude: high summer -- The dangers of being male -- The dangers of being female -- A commodity of rattlesnakes -- Ingress: the dangers of coming home -- Chaos of rocks -- Among rattlesnakes -- Into the abyss -- The last rattlesnake -- Epilogue: the ambiguous world of the timber rattlesnake.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-464) and index.