Waiting for Aphrodite: Journeys Into the Time Before Bones

We humans are a minority of giants, stumbling around in the world of little things, Sue Hubbell writes in this marvelous book. Each of these little things has a complicated and special way of getting on in the world, different from ours and different from one another's. In Waiting for Aphrodite she explores the ways of sponges and sea urchins, horseshoe crabs and the sea mouse known as Aphrodite -- as well as our ways. She takes us on a journey through the mysteries of time -- geological, biological, and personal -- as she writes of the evolution of life on this planet and the evolution of her own life: her childhood next to a Michigan graveyard; the three colleges where she learned three things; her twenty-five years keeping bees on a farm in the Ozarks; her move to a strange little house in a small Maine town, the place I wanted to grow old in. And in the tide pools and ocean waters there she discovered a whole new world, the world of little things that inspired this book.

Author: Sue Hubbell
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 05/03/2000
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 8.31h x 5.64w x 0.65d
ISBN13: 9780618056842
ISBN10: 061805684X
BISAC Categories:
- Nature | Essays
- Nature | Animals | Marine Life
- Science | Life Sciences | Biology