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The Book of Barely Imagined Beings

Autor Caspar Henderson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 oct 2013
A wonder-inducing guide to the world's most far-fetched creatures, long-listed for the 2013 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books. From Axolotl to Zebrafish, readers will discover a whole host of real creatures that are even more astonishing than anything found in the pages of a medieval bestiary. 'Here is the key to nature's secret cupboard, featuring the animals that have eluded our gaze. Seek no further for the dream gift' "Irish Times"
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ISBN-13: 9781847082442
ISBN-10: 1847082440
Pagini: 427
Dimensiuni: 128 x 198 x 48 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Editura: Granta Publications Ltd

Notă biografică

CASPAR HENDERSON has been a journalist and editor with various publications and broadcasters, including BBC Radio 4, the Financial Times, the Independent, Nature, New Scientist and openDemocracy (where he was senior editor for three years). He is a past recipient of an IUCN-Reuters award for best environmental reporting in Western Europe. He co-authored Our Fragile Earth (2005, New Internationalist) and was the commissioning editor for Debating Globalization (2005, Polity).


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From Axolotl to Zebrafish, discover a host of barely imagined beings: real creatures that are often more astonishing than anything dreamt in the pages of a medieval bestiary. Ranging from the depths of the ocean to the most arid corners of the earth, Caspar Henderson captures the beauty and bizarreness of the many living forms we thought we knew and some we could never have contemplated, inviting us to better imagine the precarious world we inhabit. A witty, vivid blend of pioneering natural history and spiritual primer, infectiously celebratory about life's sheer ingenuity and variety, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings is a mind-expanding, wonder-inducing read.