- Taschenbuch: 272 Seiten
- Verlag: Hyperion; Auflage: Reprint (15. Mai 2002)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0786886676
- ISBN-13: 978-0786886678
- Vom Hersteller empfohlenes Alter: Ab 18 Jahren
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 21,5 x 14,1 x 1,5 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 711.216 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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According to Andrew Spielman, a Harvard University specialist in tropical disease and his coauthor of Mosquito, award-winning science writer Michael D'Antonio, no animal on earth has touched so directly and profoundly the lives of so many human beings as the mosquito. Mosquito is their fascinating account for the general reader of the life story of this tiny insect and the havoc it has wrought over the millennia from the Roman soldiers that died of malaria in Scotland to the tens of thousands that died of yellow fever during the first attempt by the French to build the Panama canal at the end of the 19th century. Now the mosquito is back with a vengeance and her pathogens are apparently getting worse, making more people sick and claiming more lives, millions of lives, every year. Mosquito is full of fascinating facts and stories about the amazing variability of the insect. There are some 2500 species of mosquito compared with 4000 species for all mammals. Mosquitoes can survive almost anywhere on land from below sea level in the Californian desert up to 8000 ft in the Himalayas, and Spielman has found the common house mosquito from Harvard in the US to Confucius's grave in China. Some are so numerous and voracious that herds of caribou will migrate hundreds of miles to try and avoid the aggressive Arctic mosquitoes. Only the female mosquito practices the vampirism that does the damage and then she is only trying to feed her eggs. Reading her life story, one almost feels sorry for her. But she is the unwitting host to numerous lethal pathogens that not only cause malaria but also dengue, West Nile fever, yellow fever, etc. As Spielman and D'Antonio say, "The key to our relationship with the mosquito is getting to know it better... we still do not know what it is about blood, specifically, that mosquitoes crave for reproduction." Check the distribution maps at the back before you next take an exotic holiday. --Douglas Palmer
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A fascinating study of the mosquito's deadly influence on mankind throughout history, up to the present day, when one person dies from malaria every twelve seconds.
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Consider the most common mosquito on earth, one that is likely resting in some dark corner of your very own home or, if you are reading in bed on a warm summer evening, about to issue its faint buzz-do you hear it right now?-in your ear. Lesen Sie die erste Seite
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Consider the most common mosquito on earth, one that is likely resting in some dark corner of your very own home or, if you are reading in bed on a warm summer evening, about to issue its faint buzz-do you hear it right now?-in your ear. Lesen Sie die erste Seite
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A Great Read!
10. Juni 2003
Format:Taschenbuch
This book is a must for students of history and disease,
natural history, and popular history. It is especially timely in
light of the spread of the West Nile virus and can help the
reader to understand humanity's long struggle with disease
and the agents that can carry it. Well-written and informative, it reads more like a novel and is the very best
kind of popular history. Buy it - you'll like it!
natural history, and popular history. It is especially timely in
light of the spread of the West Nile virus and can help the
reader to understand humanity's long struggle with disease
and the agents that can carry it. Well-written and informative, it reads more like a novel and is the very best
kind of popular history. Buy it - you'll like it!
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A good introduction for the layperson
1. September 2008
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Certainly, this book is not for the professional entomologist, but I am not an entomologist and found the book to be a relatively effective history of the mosquito, malaria and other diseases, and human understanding of this insect. Like other reviewers, I did think there was a bit much repetition, but the reading is easy, and it's certainly possible to skip over a paragraph here or there until new territory is reached.
There is brief treatment of the life cycle of the mosquito before the book settles into its primary topic, disease and its transmission. Discussions of DDT, West Nile virus, and methods of (attempted) mosquito eradication were, to me, informative, and I do believe I know significantly more now than I did before reading this book.
There is brief treatment of the life cycle of the mosquito before the book settles into its primary topic, disease and its transmission. Discussions of DDT, West Nile virus, and methods of (attempted) mosquito eradication were, to me, informative, and I do believe I know significantly more now than I did before reading this book.
Don't Squash That Skeeter Just Yet
21. Oktober 2008
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Dr. Spielman is described as a world-renowned expert on mosquitoes. Better him than me, I say. If you can get into this kind of subject, the book is an interesting read, and you'll never again look at a skeeter in quite the same way. Read this weird book to learn about how mosquitoes are born, how they live, love (okay it's not exactly love), and die.
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