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28%OFFCaspar Henderson - The Book of Barely Imagined Beings: A 21st-century Bestiary - 9781847082442 - V9781847082442
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The Book of Barely Imagined Beings: A 21st-century Bestiary

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Description for The Book of Barely Imagined Beings: A 21st-century Bestiary Paperback. An entrancing guide to the world's most far-fetched creatures - a unique blend of cutting-edge science and philosophical meditation on what we humans can learn from the extraordinary animals around us Illustrator(s): Moghaddas, Golbanou. Num Pages: 448 pages, integrated. BIC Classification: WNC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 32. Weight in Grams: 416.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Granta Books
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847082442
SKU
V9781847082442
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About Caspar Henderson
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 won the Roger Deakin Award of the Society ... Read more

Reviews for The Book of Barely Imagined Beings: A 21st-century Bestiary
Wondrous, capacious and strange
Simon Critchley Utterly extraordinary book: glorious and genre-bending; a spell-book of species that entranced me from its first page... A celebration of nature's astonishing variety - and a warning as to what we are so rapidly losing
Robert Macfarlane Wonderful, beautiful and engrossing... a delight
Robin Ince A celebration, a warning, and unquestionably ... Read more

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