Strategien der Wirtsfindung

A natural history of parasites in more than 200 full-page plates of images and text, drawn, written and laid out by one hand. Mites in the carpet and the folds of the bedding, ticks, predatory rotifers, unsuspecting larvae and carnivorous plants play out their strategies of disguise, deception and mimicry, so fantastical that they seem to come from horror fiction rather than a biology book. Rhymed verse sits beside drawings in the manner of serial comics and the graphic novel. The book follows its creatures from ever-changing angles, inviting the reader's detective instincts, and mixes facts with their exuberant visualisation, wonder with disgust.

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About the book

Form

Nonfiction

Length

202 pages in the original

Genres

Nature (assigned by AI)

First published

2017 by Matthes und Seitz Berlin

Author's age

58 when first published

ISBN

9783957574022 (original)