The book of vanishing species : illustrated lives / by Beatrice Forshall.
Material type:
TextPublisher: London, England : Bloomsbury Publishing, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: 255 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 28 cmContent type: - text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781526623775
- 1526623773
| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| Non-Fiction | Gonville Library Non-Fiction (NEST) | Non-Fiction | 591.68 FOR | Available | T00865083 | ||
| Non-Fiction | Mobile Library Non-Fiction | Non-Fiction | 591.68 FOR | Available | T00865082 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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Our Earth is more beautiful and more diverse than we can possibly conceive of.
The Book of Vanishing Species is a stunning homage to the planet's most mysterious, bizarre and wondrous creatures and plants. Their stories are captivating, from the eyeless and tiny dragonlike olm to the hawksbill turtle, whose gender will be determined by the temperature of the sand it is born in. These species may have survived for hundreds of thousands of years by cleverly adapting to their environments, but their future remains far from certain.
The book brings to life red cranes as they dance and bow for the sheer joy of movement, trees that breathe out a haze of misty atmosphere for insects that only feast on one kind of flower, a deep-ocean snail quietly building its shell from iron... and each one of them is illuminated with an exquisite illustration. As you turn the pages, there emerges a network of life that stretches across and around the planet in a dazzling web of existence.
This is both a love letter to life on Earth, and an urgent summons to protect what is precious and lovely in this world.
Includes bibliographic references (page 246) and index.
"Our Earth is more beautiful and more diverse than we can possibly conceive of. Oceans, rivers, forests, caves, deserts, skies and soil are home to extraordinary species from the tiny, dragon-like olm to the colossal sequoia tree. They may have survived for hundreds of thousands of years by adapting to unique environments, but their future remains far from certain. Their story is our story too. The Book of Vanishing Species is both a love letter to life on Earth, and an urgent summons to protect all that is precious in our world."-- Back cover.