We do know this
much: Frogs are very fragile creatures that depend on
their sensitive skin for survival. Their skin acts like
a sponge, soaking up water and everything else that's in the
water. When anything goes wrong with their environment,
the frogs cannot live. Many scientists believe that the cause
is either a rise in toxic substances from industrial waste, or
a rise in UV rays caused by the diminishing ozone layer.
So, the next
time you think about dumping that can of paint thinner down
the drain, Think for a moment about the vanishing frogs.
Hyperion, the
publishing unit of ABC, has just published an important
new book called A PLAGUE OF FROGS by
William Souder. Souder, a
journalist, has followed the mystery of
the widespread deformities in
frogs since they were first discovered
in 1995; now he shows us, up
close, the urgent--and
unresolved--search for a cause. Souder
realizes that the frogs' decline may be
a harbinger of things to
come. "So consider the frog," he
writes. "The frog has sensed a
change, a displacement in the order of
life as we know it. We may be
responsible, at least in part, for
causing this change. And we may
be the next to feel it. The frog
is telling us something. Will we
listen?"
We at Hyperion
believe that A PLAGUE OF FROGS will be of great
interest to you and to visitors to the
deformed-frog section of your
site The Strange. Therefore, we
would like to send you a free copy
so you can see if you agree with
us. If you do find it of interest,
we ask that you list the book as a
resource for deformed-frog
information, review the book if you
like, and/or add a link to our
PLAGUE OF FROGS Web site
(http://hyperionbooks.go.com/features/souder/
UPDATE: This website is long gone but exists in the
archive ) to your frogs.html
page along with the link to the
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency's
frogs information. (A neat banner
graphic for your use is attached
to this message, and we've provided some
sample text links below as
well.)
If you'd like a
copy of A PLAGUE OF FROGS, please reply to
margaret.putnam@abc.com with
the following information:
--Your site's name
--Your site's URL
--Your name and e-mail address
--Your postal mail address, so we can send you the book
--The URL of the
page of your site where the book would be mentioned
if you decide to add it
And if you know
of other frog site maintainers who would be
interested in this book as well, feel
free to pass this message
along. We will be happy to provide
a free book to those whose sites
are sufficiently related to A PLAGUE OF
FROG's subject matter (at
least until our book supply runs
out--numbers are limited).
Thanks for your
time! We hope you find the book as fascinating as we
do. Here's just one quote
about the book, from the Washington Post:
Bill McKibben, author of THE END OF
NATURE, calls A PLAGUE OF FROGS
"a revealing and important book," and
says of Souder "he's done a
remarkably sober and meticulous job of
following a story that's been
misreported in almost every newspaper
and on every TV station in the
country."
We hope you
agree that visitors to your site need to know about this
important book!
Sample text links:
Find out more about A Plague of Frogs by William Souder --excerpts, deformed-frog facts, pictures of deformed frogs, and an interview with the author can all be found on the Hyperion Web site.
A Plague of Frogs:
The Horrifying True Story by William Souder. UPDATE: The Hyperion
website is long gone but you can still buy this book on
Amazon after 28 years! WOW!
(Hyperion,
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But the book is
still available on Amazon after 28 years!