Waiting for Aphrodite: Journeys Into the Time Before Bones

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, May 3, 2000 - SCIENCE - 256 pages
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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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This is an odd one for me to review. I loved the science portions of this book - Sue Hubbell is a very talented science writer. But, I found the biographical parts to be dragging. It might have been ... Read full review

WAITING FOR APHRODITE: Journeys into the Time Before Bones

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Hubbell (Far Flung Hubbell: Essays from the American Road, 1995, etc.), fresh to her Maine coast home after 25 years in the Ozarks, goes exploring among the spineless and the no-necks. "My own ... Read full review

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Contents

Section 1
1
Section 2
9
Section 3
20
Section 4
38
Section 5
50
Section 6
63
Section 7
85
Section 8
88
Section 11
123
Section 12
140
Section 13
152
Section 14
170
Section 15
179
Section 16
194
Section 17
212
Section 18
229

Section 9
101
Section 10
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About the author (2000)

Sue Hubbell was the author of eight books, including A Country Year and New York Times Notable Book A Book of Bees . She wrote for the New Yorker, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Smithsonian, and Time, and was a frequent contributor to the Hers" column of the New York Times .

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TitleWaiting for Aphrodite: Journeys Into the Time Before Bones
AuthorSue Hubbell
Editionillustrated
PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000
ISBN061805684X, 9780618056842
Length256 pages
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