Stinging Trees and Wait-a-Whiles by Bill Laurance, Chicago, $25, ISBN
0226468968
In Search of the Golden Frog by Martha Crump, Chicago, $18.90, ISBN
0226121984
AN ordinary day’s fieldwork: “Hiking through the forest I noticed a
distinctive itching in my private parts. I immediately dropped my trousers and
was aghast to find a massive leech attached, half its body inside my urethra. I
howled in horror and yanked the engorged beast out. The only highlight of this
appalling incident was that my private parts were huge for a week, which was
gratifying from a purely egotistical point of view.”
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