The Medusa and the Snail, Lewis Thomas
The Medusa and the Snail, Lewis Thomas
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The Medusa and the Snail
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Author: Lewis Thomas

Narrator: Stuart Langton

Unabridged: 4 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/08/2008

Synopsis

Lewis Thomass fascinating observations of the quirkiness of the worlds lifeforms cause the listener to ponder simultaneously a tiny organism and the workings of the cosmos. In one chapter he examines the medusa jellyfish and a sea slug, mutually parasitic and dependent on one another. Lewis says, They remind me of the whole earth at once.

About Lewis Thomas

Lewis Thomas (1913–1993) was born in New York. He earned a bachelor’s degree at Princeton and a doctorate in medicine in 1937. He went on to become professor of pediatric research at the University of Minnesota, chairman of the Departments of Pathology and Medicine and also dean at the New York University—Bellevue Medical Center, chairman of the Department of Pathology and dean at Yale Medical School, and president of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. His now classic book, The Lives of a Cell, won the National Book Award in 1974.

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Goodreads review by A

Tom has done it again. The poems are, at every turn, a delight. They full of Tom's wisdom and his sense of humor.......more

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