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Venom Doc: The Edgiest, Darkest, Strangest Natural History Memoir Ever
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Product Description Steve Irwin meets David Attenborough in this jaw-dropping account of studying the world’s most venomous creatures. Venomologist Bryan Grieg Fry has one of the most dangerous jobs on earth: he works with its deadliest creatures. He’s been bitten by twenty-six venomous snakes, been stung by three stingrays, and survived a near-fatal scorpion sting while deep in the Amazon jungle. He’s received more than four hundred stitches and broken twenty-three bones, including breaking his back in three places, and had to learn how to walk again. But when you research only the venom you yourself have collected, the adventuresand dangernever stop. Imagine a three-week-long first date in Siberia catching venomous water shrews with the daughter of a Russian war hero; a wedding attended by Eastern European prime ministers and their machine-gun-wielding bodyguards and snakes; or leading a team to Antarctica that results in the discovery of four new species of venomous octopi. Bryan’s discoveries have radically reshaped views on venom evolution and contributed to the creation of venom-based life-saving medications. In pursuit of venom, he has traveled the world collecting samples from Indonesia to Mexico, Germany, and Brazil. He’s encountered venomous creatures of all kinds, including the Malaysian king cobra, the Komodo dragon, and the brush-footed trapdoor spider. Bryan recounts his lifelong passion for studying the world’s most venomous creatures in this outlandish, captivating memoir, where he and danger are never far apart. Review "You just gotta admire Bryan Fry’s brand of insanity, it’s begat by the same innocent attraction that some kids have to wild, dangerous’ things. While having a blast doing it, Bryan levitates his venomous adventure to the realms of high science and tells a cracking good tale about it all." Romulus Whitaker, herpetologist and wildlife conservationist Ask Bryan Grieg Fry what he does for a living, and you’re suddenly thrown into a strange world full of venom and danger. In Venom Doc, Fry takes readers on a gripping tour of that world, showing why the dangerous creatures he spends his life with are also among the most fascinating.” Carl Zimmer, author of Parasite Rex Bryan Fry’s recent monograph, Venomous Reptiles and Their Toxins is a scientific tour de force. His new book, Venom Doc, is jam-packed with wildly entertaining behind-the-scenes stories of how Bryan became an expert on venom and the trials and tribulations of a life in science. Brilliant, flamboyant, and sometimes controversial, this is the story of his life, warts and all. This book is thrilling and thought-provoking! Bryan’s memoir is a must-read for anyone interested in herpetology.”Nigel Marven, BBC Television Host If the first two rules of writing one's memoirs are to live a remarkable life and to relate its anecdotes in an interesting, entertaining way, then Bryan Fry's "Dr. Venom" nails it on both counts. . . . Fry's life and career have been outliers among outliers, and Doctor Venom is endlessly entertaining for just that reason: It is the diary of a quintessentially mad scientist.. . . Each chapter paints a portrait of not only his bizarre profession, but also what makes Bryan . . . Bryan. Although Fry's research is complex, reading about it is easy, and the stories are populated by a cast of characters as colorful as you might expect. Fans of herp history will find Doctor Venom not only an important addition to their libraries, but a fun, engaging page-turner as well.” Ray Morgan, The Venom Interviews Bryan is the Hunter S. Thompson of his sciencehe doesn't so much study venom as indulge in its excesses to fully understand his subject from the inside. This is a cracking read that will take you through his chaotic and often scary world as he has experienced it, seen through his blood-shot eyes.” Dr. Paul M.A Willis, Paleontologist and Science Communicator, presenter and host for Australia’s Science Cha
