The outer reaches of life / John Postgate.

Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1994.

ix, 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

1st ed.

Includes index

Microbes and terrestrial life -- Some like it hot -- Cool, man, cool -- Big squeeze -- Salty tale -- Corrosive and slippery places -- Life without oxygen -- Living on minerals -- Exotic menus -- Of wraiths and ghosts -- Inertness of nitrogen -- Getting about -- Microsenses -- Private space -- Company -- Immortality and the big sleep -- Self-adjustment -- Life's outer reaches.