Astonishing Animals - Extraordinary Creatures and the Fantastic Worlds They Inhabit (Hardcover, illustrated edition)

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, antlered lizards, Astonishing Animals is a remarkable collection of the world's most incredible creatures and the stories behind their remarkable survival into a modern age.

General

Imprint:	Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2004
First published:	September 2004
Authors:	Tim Flannery
Illustrators:	Peter Schouten
Dimensions:	280 x 246 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	192
Edition:	illustrated edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-87113-875-0
Categories:	Books > Sport & Leisure > Natural history, country life & pets > Wild animals > General
LSN:	0-87113-875-1
Barcode:	9780871138750

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