Waiting for Aphrodite: Journeys into the Time Before Bones
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ISBN: 061805684X / Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, May 2000
A distinguished naturalist journeys inside the extraordinary lives of invertebrates, exploring the geological, biological, and personal mysteries of time as she chronicles the evolution of life on Earth and sheds light on the world of earthworms, corals, crickets, and Aphrodite, the sea mouse. Reprint.
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"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.
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