For millennia, nature's biggest & fiercest predators have tormented mankind. The knowledge & fear of the existence of these ferocious man-eaters is forever in the back of our minds, looming in our worst nightmares. Millions of humans have suffered attacks by predators on land & at sea. Yet animals have always shared the landscape with humans. Since the dawn of time our ecosystems have been linked & humans have co-existed with flesh-eating beasts as members of the same food chain. Now, of course, as humans spread & despoil the planet, these fearsome predators may only survive on the other side of glass barriers & chain-link fences. Their gradual disappearance is changing the nature of our own existence. We no longer occupy an intermediate position on the food chain; instead we survey it invulnerably from above
- so far above that we are in danger of forgetting that we even belong to an ecosystem.

David Quammen's enthralling new book covers the four corners of the globe as he explores the fate of lions in India's Gir forest, saltwater crocodiles in Northern Australia, brown bears in the mountains of Romania, & Siberian tigers. Tracking these great & terrible beasts through the toughest terrain in the world, Quammen is equally intrigued by the traditional relationship between the great predators & the people who live among them, & weaves into his story the fears & myths that have haunted humankind for 3000 years.


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The explosion at the Prime Minister's visit to Long Harbour means the cover of the Monster Republic is blown, & they are forced deep into hiding. Lazarus Fry turns his tactics to infiltration, & is confident of their swift crushing. Plus his new pets, the Blood Hawks, are hungry to get their talons into some fresh kill...
But Fry hasn't counted on this band of rebel kids' awesome will for survival. When your back is against the wall, the only option is to come out fighting...
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The explosion at the Prime Minister's visit to Long Harbour means the cover of the Monster Republic is blown, & they are forced deep into hiding. Lazarus Fry turns his tactics to infiltration, & is confident of their swift crushing. Plus his new pets, the Blood Hawks, are hungry to get their talons into some fresh kill...
But Fry hasn't counted on this band of rebel kids' awesome will for survival. When your back is against the wall, the only option is to come out fighting...
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From the cells of Death Row come the chilling, true-life accounts of the most heinous, cruel & depraved killers of modern times. Meet grisly killers such as Bill Joe Benefiel, the ' Superglue Monster', who glued his victims eyes & noses shut, causing them to suffocate. Or Willie Crain, the deviant fisherman, who put his victim into a lobster pot, where it was eaten by sea creatures.
Many prisoners on ' the Row' have carried out serial murder, mass murder, spree killing & the desmemberment of bodies
- both dead & alive. In these pages are to be found friends who have stabbed, hacked & ever filleted their victims. So meet the ' Dead Men & Women Walking' from the legion of the damned in the most terrifying true crime read ever.

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It begun as a sudden strange fancy...

Polly Perks had to become a boy in a hurry. Cutting off her hair & wearing trousers

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It began as a sudden strange fancy...

Polly Perks had to become a boy in a hurry. Cutting off her hair & wearing trousers

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