Starting with an elegant description of a small piece of land called Hungry Hollow A.K.
Dewdney introduces us to its denizens. The reader goes on a guided tour through the many
dimensions of our natural habitat back into prehistoric time and inward to a teeming
microscopic world full of strange creatures performing bizarre feats. It surprised me how 220
pages explaining biological phenomena can add up to a literary image of the magic of
lifePerhaps this book will go some way to redress the general deficiency in judgement that
allows humans to endanger other life forms... -NEW SCIENTIST
