The Book of the Spider From Arachnophobia to the Love of Spiders

Paul Hillyard

Book (17 Feb 1994)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Arachnophobia has its origins deep in the human psyche and has been commemorated in film, in legend, in art and in nursery rhyme. This book has been designed as an instructive and entertaining antidote to the irrational fear of "creepy crawlies", commenting on some of the 35,000 known species of arachnid, including spiders which live at 22,000 feet on Mount Everest, spiders which fly and spiders which can be found under the sea.

About the Publisher

Hutchinson

Founded in 1887 by George Hutchinson with capital of three thousand pounds, Hutchinson opened for business in the basement of 25 Paternostor Row, near St Paul's Cathedral. It is the home of fiction that you have to press into the hands of your friends and non-fiction that is entertaining and erudite. We publish bestsellers, Helen Dunmore, Sebastian Faulks, Robert Harris, Douglas Kennedy and Ruth Rendell, book club favourites, Aimee Bender, Anna Quindlen. We are committed to discovering new talent that combine a distinctive voice with great storytelling skills and recent acquisitions include Bonnie Nadzam, longlisted for the Women's Prize, New York Times bestsellers, Sloane Crosley, Ayana Mathis, Marisha Pessl and Amor Towles.

Book information

ISBN:	9780091776312
Publisher:	Hutchinson
Imprint:	Hutchinson
Pub date:	17 Feb 1994
DEWEY:	595.44
DEWEY edition:	20
Language:	English
Number of pages:	196
Weight:	452g
Height:	216mm
Width:	135mm
Spine width:	25mm