Ten million aliens: a journey through the entire animal kingdom - simon barnes

For Discovery Channel enthusiasts, this scientific foray into life on planet earth examines how the worlds creatures--both weird and wonderful--are inextricably linked.

Life on planet earth is not weirder than we imagine.

Its weirder than we are capable of imagining.

And were all in it together: humans, blue whales, rats, birds of paradise, ridiculous numbers of beetles, molluscs the size of a bus, the sexual gladiators of slugs, bdelloid rotifers who havent had sex for millions of years and creatures called water bears: you can boil them, freeze them and fire them off into space without killing them.

Were all part of the animal kingdom, appearing in what Darwin called endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful.

In this breathtakingly audacious book, Simon Barnes has brought us all together, seeking not what separates us but what unites us.

He takes us white-water rafting through the entire animal kingdom in a book that brings in deep layers of arcane knowledge, the works of Darwin and James Joyce, Barness own dont-try-this-at-home adventures in the wild, David Attenborough and Sherlock Holmes.

Ten Million Aliens opens your eyes to the real marvels of the planet we live on.