![]() ![]() ![]() Then it continued on its rat-snake mission, passing within a few feet of him. ![]() The snake saw him, raised its head off the ground, and seemed to reflect on the situation. Simpson froze in place but lifted his rifle to the ready position just in case. In researching the book, Caras asked five snake experts to name the deadliest serpents on the planet, “the snakes that you would least like to be trapped in a phone booth with.” There are something like 200 species of dangerous snakes (out of a total of 2,500), and the only one that made all five lists was the king cobra. Garcia asked about my policy on snakes, and in an appendix to Dangerous to Man is a fascinating little piece of herpetological knowledge that I read more than 50 years ago and have never forgotten. ![]() The other is The Monarch of Deadman Bay (1969), the fictionalized life story of an Alaskan brown bear from birth to death, at the hands of, naturally, a hunter. One is Dangerous to Man (1964) which is a scholarly, rather than a sensational, look at all the hazardous critters on the planet and how much of a threat they actually are. He was a prolific writer, and of his many books there are two that are very much worth your while. A few posts back I mentioned the late naturalist, author, and television personality Roger Caras, whom I knew a little bit and liked despite our bitter differences over hunting. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |