2003 1st edition. W.W. Norton & Company. New York and London. Ppxii,515. B/w map, bibliography. Two-tone black and cream boards. Fine in dust-wrapper.
Notes: An extended essay on human beings as "an intermediate link in a food chain": a palaeontological and modern history of the many and various animals which eat people, and their relationship with the societies which provide their prey. David Quammen also examines the future of the various man-eating species, which is generally not hopeful. Chapters include; the food chain of power and glory; once there were lions; the muskrat conundrum; Leviathan with a hook; shadow of the nine-toed bear; the teeth and the meat; Perestroika; science fiction ending.
