The Plague of a Thousand Crickets: Collected Letters to the Editor and Associated Stories

By Daniel Emlyn-Jones

During the 2013 summer heat wave, I released a thousand African field crickets into my neighborhood in Oxford, UK. We'd suffered dismal weather for too long, and their loud chirping made us imagine we were in some tropical paradise. I wrote a letter to 'The Independent' newspaper extolling the idea, and there followed a national and international media storm. Introducing foreign species is highly illegal, and I was subsequently interviewed by the police. In this book I collect together all 114 of the letters to the editor I have had published in local and national newspapers in the UK and abroad, and tell the fascinating stories - some light-hearted, some more serious -, associated with them, including 'The Plague of a Thousand Crickets'.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1500846414
• ISBN13: 9781500846411
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"