Arachnophobia has its origins deep in the human psyche and has been commemorated in film, in legend, in art and in nursery rhyme. This book has been designed as an instructive and entertaining antidote to the irrational fear of creepy crawlies, commenting on some of the 35,000 known species of arachnid, including spiders which live at 22,000 feet on Mount Everest, spiders which fly and spiders which can be found under the sea.