Mean and Lowly Things

Snakes, Science, and Survival in the Congo

Kate Jackson

  • A Library Journal Best Sci-Tech book of 2008
  • Prologue
  1. How It All Started
  2. Back to the Congo
  3. In Limbo
  4. The Flooded Forest
  5. Neighbors, Nets, and Nothing
  6. The Red Snake
  7. A Bottle of Snakes
  8. A Day of Monsters
  9. Time to Go
  10. Red Tape Revisited
  11. Planning My Return
  12. Back to the Likouala
  13. This Is Impongui
  14. Snake Medicine
  15. Making Herpetologists
  16. The Home Stretch
  17. A Stressful Day
  18. Kende Malamu
  • Epilogue
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index
  • Cover: Mean and Lowly Things

Kate Jackson is Assistant Professor of Biology at Whitman College.