Ten Million Aliens: A Journey Through the Entire Animal Kingdom

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Life on Planet Earth is not weirder than we imagine. It's weirder than we are capable of imagining. Ten Million Aliens opens your eyes to the real marvels of the planet we live on.

Simon Barnes is the multi-award-winning chief sportswriter for the Times. He is also a novelist, nature writer and horseman, and the author of a dozen books, including the bestselling How to be a Bad Birdwatcher and The Meaning of Sport (Short Books). He lives in Suffolk with his family.

One of the most compulsively readable, astoundingly compendious and endlessly thrilling natural histories ever written ... This is a book that I will treasure for ever.' Barnes has a wonderful knowledge of wildlife and a gift for bringing his enthusiasm to life - He has a deft turn of phrase and a lyrical style.' Barnes brings the animal kingdom to life.' * The Independent * Reading Barnes's prose is a bit like peeling a rather elegant onion, as he gradually reveals secrets about his life through the medium of the natural world.' * BBC Wildlife Magazine *