A Natural History of the Senses

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by Diane Ackerman

Random House, Inc

Due/Published August 1991, 331 pages, paper

ISBN 0679735666

Diane Ackerman's grand tour of the realm of the senses includes conversations with an iceberg in Antarctica and a professional nose in New York, along with dissertations on kisses and tattoos, sadistic cuisine and the music played by the planet Earth.