Este libro es una pieza de “bolsillo digital”, con pequeñas narraciones basadas en interesantes aspectos biológicos sobre caracoles principalmente, pero además otros invertebrados y vertebrados. Más que exponer su biología, el autor impregna en cada narración todo el misterio y curiosidades que envuelven a estos seres y su relación con la naturaleza.

En su novela de 1897 Drácula, Bram Stoker usó la naturaleza de Transilvania como trasfondo, pero, aparte de los lobos, no convirtió a los animales en personajes de su novela. Esto me llevó a preguntarme qué tipo de caracoles terrestres habitan en el bosque de los Cárpatos que tanto asustó a Jonathan Harker en la tierra de Vlad Drácula.

This “digital pocketbook” is composed of short natural history stories, mostly about snails, but also about other animals, and their often-overlooked presence along human history. Instead of just describing their biology, the author imprints on each narration all the mystery and curiosity subjacent in these creatures and their relationship with nature. The book includes two chapters. In the first chapter, it develops the relationship between snails and the history of hu...

In 45 BC the troops of Julius Caesar defeated the Numidian king Juba I. Juba committed suicide in Tunisia, but Julius Caesar took his young son to Rome, a little boy who would be in “preschool” if he lived in our times. Little Juba was not mistreated; on the contrary, he was treated as a noble and received the best education, and he spoke and wrote perfect Latin and Greek. Years passed, Julius Caesar was assassinated, and Cleopatra and Antony died, but they left behind a...