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Can I read Astonishing Animals : Extraordinary Creatures and the Fantastic Worlds They Inhabit on EtoBox?
Astonishing Animals : Extraordinary Creatures and the Fantastic Worlds They Inhabit by Recorded Books, Inc.;Flannery, Tim is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Astonishing Animals : Extraordinary Creatures and the Fantastic Worlds They Inhabit about?
Intro; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Life: A Brief Biography; The Vertical Terrain; Motion Specialists; Food & Feeding; Shape-shifters; Habitat Specialists; The Vertical Ocean; Index; Acknowledgements;Sumptuous birds of paradise, amazing soft shell turtles, frogs that look like tomatoes, and terrifying fish (including the deep-water angler fish from Finding Nemo) are just some of the extraordinary creatures that can be found in Tim Flannery and Peter Schouten's new book Astonishing Animals. Superbly illustrated in lifelike full color paintings, Astonishing Animals details ninety of the world's most amazing animals from around the world. In this book you will find the Hairy Seadevil, the spectacular Sulawesi Naked Bat, and in the depths of the limestone caves in Slovenia, the Olm, a pink, four-legged, sightless salamander that lives for a hundred years. In fascinating vignettes, Flannery offers the true evolutionary tale of how each of these bizarre creatures came to look the way they do. Alongside each historical account is a stunning hand painted color reproduction (life-size in the original painting) by Schouten. Filled with purple-faced apes, jagged toothed dolphins, a
Who reads Astonishing Animals : Extraordinary Creatures and the Fantastic Worlds They Inhabit?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Recorded Books, Inc.;Flannery, Tim
- Publisher
- Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780802194176
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, Nature, Animals