The Book of Barely Imagined Beings

A 21st-Century Bestiary

Caspar Henderson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

448 Seiten

2013
Granta Books (Verlag)
978-1-84708-244-2 (ISBN)

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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

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.

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 of Authors and the Jerwood Award of the Royal Society of Literature for this book as a work in progress.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	3.10.2013
Illustrationen	Golbanou Moghaddas
Zusatzinfo	integrated
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Gewicht	430 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
ISBN-10	1-84708-244-0 / 1847082440
ISBN-13	978-1-84708-244-2 / 9781847082442
Zustand	Neuware