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Books > Sport & Leisure > Natural history, country life & pets > Wild animals > Aquatic creatures
It's different when it's your daughter. DI Gravel's daughter Emily
has landed her dream job working for high profile solicitor Charles
Turner. But the job turns deadly when she attracts the attention of
a serial killer. Gravel is already on the case, the bodies are
piling up and the killer's sick fantasies are enough to give the
detective nightmares. However, the killer's obsession with Emily
raises the stakes. Can Gravel and Emily survive the case? This is
the third book in the dark, edge-of-your-seat Carmarthen Crime
thriller series set in the stunning West Wales countryside.
*Previously published as A Cold Cold Heart*
For centuries whales have captured our imaginations and ignited our
emotions. We have revered and mythologised them, hunted them to the
brink of extinction and passionately protected them. But how much
do we really know about whales? Based on the hugely popular,
internationally touring exhibition Whales Tohora (a.k.a. Whales:
Giants of the Deep), this all-new book brings these majestic marine
mammals and their underwater world to life, with a special focus on
the whales and dolphins of the South Pacific. From the first richly
illustrated, entertaining chapter, readers are immersed in the
salty sea, the home of the whales, to explore their amazing
diversity, biology and adaption to life in the oceans. Throughout
the book, literally hundreds of breath-taking photographs,
historical pictures, astonishing facts and figures and informative
illustrations and diagrams bring the whale world to life. Here,
too, are stories from people whose lives have been inextricably
linked with whales - from legendary South Pacific whale riders to
international whale scientists to conservationists to former
whalers and their families.Powerfully, Whales Tohora combines
storytelling, science, and culture to tell the story of the
relationship between the humans and these fascinating creatures
throughout history and into the future.
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Crab
(Paperback)
Cynthia Chris
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R427
R387
Discovery Miles 3 870
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What is a crab? What significance do crabs play in the world? In
Crab, Cynthia Chris discovers that these charming creatures are
social by nature, creative problem-solvers, and invaluable members
of the environments in which they live. Their formidable physical
forms, their hard-to-harvest and quick-to-spoil flesh, and their
sassy demeanour have inspired artists and writers from Vincent van
Gogh to Jean-Paul Sartre. Cynthia Chris sketches vivid portraits of
these animals, tracing the history of the crab through its ancient
fossil record to its essential role in protecting its own habitats
from the threat of climate change.
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Squid
(Paperback)
Martin Wallen
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R434
R396
Discovery Miles 3 960
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In myths and legends, squids are portrayed as fearsome
sea-monsters, lurking in the watery deeps waiting to devour humans.
Even as modern science has tried to turn those monsters of the deep
into unremarkable calamari, squids continue to dominate the
nightmares of the Western imagination. Taking inspiration from
early weird fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, modern writers such as
Jeff VanderMeer depict squids as the absolute Other of human
civilization, while non-Western poets such as Daren Kamali depict
squids as anything but threats. In Squid, Martin Wallen traces the
many different ways humans have thought about and pictured this
predatory mollusk: as guardians, harbingers of environmental
collapse, or an untapped resource to be exploited. No matter how we
have perceived them, squids have always gazed back at us,
unblinking, from the dark.
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Fish
(Paperback)
Allen Paul
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R252
Discovery Miles 2 520
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