Above, Below and Long Ago

Animals, plants and fossils in unseen places

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

Av Michael Bright

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Produced with the Natural History Museum, this book brings you closer to the wildlife that's hard to reach - to the animals and plants in the skies, deep underwater, on clifftops, in caves and underground. Find out how plants and animals adapted to these environments and about wildlife from long ago. Filled with stylish linocut prints of wildlife, this is a book you will admire for its beauty as well as for the fascinating information inside.Discover the snow leopard as it hunts mountain goats and sheep, the ghostly pale, eel-shaped olm and a mysterious orchid that only blooms underground.With gorgeous linocut prints, this beautiful book reveals the textures and patterns of the natural world.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-03-14
Mått238 x 294 x 12 mm
Vikt360 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor64
FörlagHachette Children's Group
IllustratörEmmerson, Jonathan
ISBN9781526318138

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Michael Bright has worked as an executive producer with the BBC's world-renowned Natural History Unit, based in Bristol, and with its Science Unit in London. He is author of over a hundred books on wildlife, science, travel, and conservation, including many for children. His bestseller Africa: Eye to Eye with the Unknown accompanied the popular television series presented by Sir David Attenborough. He is the recipient of many international radio and television awards, including the prestigious Prix Italia. He is a graduate of the University of London and a corporate biologist and member of the Royal Society of Biology. Jonathan Emmerson is an illustrator and printmaker. Growing up on Salisbury Plain near Stonehenge led to a lifelong fascination with nature, fossils and all things prehistoric. He studied Fine Art at Birmingham Institute of Art & Design, and lives in St. Albans, making linocut prints inspired by the natural world.

1: Above1: Atlantic Puffin1: Snow Leopard1: Spanish Mountain Flower1: Rocky Mountain Goat1: Leaf-eared Mouse1: Peregrine Falcon1: Yellow-footed Rock Wallaby1: Barn Swallow1: Below1: The Olm1: Basking Shark1: Cave Swiftlets1: The Mole1: Western Underground Orchid1: Brown Rat1: Common Eel1: Mariana Snailfish1: Long Ago1: Ammonite1: Megalodon1: Jurassic Orchid1: Trilobite1: Coelacanth1: Horseshoe Crab1: The Gingko1: Tuatara1: Where in the World?1: Glossary1: The illustrations in this book1: Index