America's snake : the rise and fall of the timber rattlesnake /
Ted Levin ; illustrations by Alexandra Westrich.
- xxvi, 481 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-464) and index.
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.