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The Book of Vanishing Species - Illustrated Lives (Hardcover)
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The Book of Vanishing Species - Illustrated Lives (Hardcover)
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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.
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