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Jungle (Hardcover)
Dan Kainen, Kathy Wollard
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R767
R618
Discovery Miles 6 180
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JUNGLE features exotic animals in vivid colour and vibrant motion:
A tree frog blinks his big red eyes. A tiger stalks his prey. A
blue leaf monkey scratches his back. A tarantula scurries across
the ground. A butterfly drinks from a tropical flower. A whipsnake
darts its tongue. A nocturnal tarsier scans for food. A vividly
patterned macaw comes in for a landing.
Take an eye-opening adventure to Australia through the magic of the
Photicular series, which with its patented technology is not only a
delight to behold but to sell, too, with over 2.6 million copies in
print and sales in excess of 300,000 copies a year. In Outback
discover the frilled-neck lizard racing along on its two hind feet
like a half-terrifying, half-comical miniature dinosaur. A brightly
colour galah scraping its beak along a tree limb. Plus exotic
peacock spiders who seem to dance in the trees, a too-cute Wombat
who lumbers through the grass, and of course a red kangaroo, who
hops along, its back legs and massive tail working in unison.
Flipping through the pages of Outback is like a trip of a lifetime
to down under. The lively text filled with interesting, insider
facts is from Atlas Obscura associate editor Ella Morton, New
Zealand-born and Australia-raised.
In its extraordinary debut, Safari, introduced the world to
Photicular technology. The cheetah bounded, the African elephant
flapped its ears and readers could not believe their eyes. Now the
creators of Safari take their work a step further. Ocean offers not
only a refinement of inventor Dan Kainen s Photicular technology,
but a subject undulating creatures of the deep perfectly suited to
the immersive visual pleasure of the process. Ocean is like being
on a dive. Open the book, and the reader is swept into the magic of
an underwater world, face-to-face with a floating Yellow-Banded
Sweetlips; with a glow-in-the-dark Deep-Sea Anglerfish; with a Sea
Horse swaying in balletic motion; with a Sand Tiger Shark gliding
along the ocean floor, its gaze haunting, its hook-toothed mouth
gulping open and closed. The text by Carol Kaufmann enchants with
its descriptions of coral reefs; a journey on Alvin, the 17-ton
submersible; and a meditation on our oceans. Then, for each
creature, she writes a lively and informative essay, along with
vital statistics size, habitat, range, diet, and more. The
Photicular process uses an innovative lenticular technology,
sliding lenses, and original four-color video imagery. The result
is like a movie in your hands the dance of life in a book."
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Polar (Hardcover)
Dan Kainen, Carol Kaufmann
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R766
R617
Discovery Miles 6 170
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Seeing is believing: Photicular technology is a phenomenon. Three
years - two titles, Safari and Ocean - and 723,000 copies in print.
Through its innovative lenticular process, sliding lenses, and
four-colour video imagery, readers discovered the magic of animals
bounding and leaping, and then came face to face with creatures of
the sea as they undulate and sway. Now Dan Kainen, the creator of
the Photicular technology, takes us even further into places
unknown by exploring the ends of the earth, the Arctic and
Antarctic. Polar captures a land of extremes - remote, mysterious,
and sparsely populated by creatures found nowhere else. Penguins
waddle in their irresistibly happy way. A walrus lumbers across the
snowy landscape. There's a polar bear with her cubs; a beluga whale
breaching; a team of sled dogs sprinting directly at the viewer.
And the miracle of the northern lights, shimmering likes a silk
rainbow. Science writer Carol Kaufmann brings the reader along on a
voyage to the icy North and South Poles and writes a lively and
informative essay for each image, including the animal's size,
range, habitat, and other vital statistics. Polar captures a
hauntingly beautiful yet threatened world, caught forever in
moments of living motion.
Once before, we introduced a brand-new idea with a challenge: You
won't believe your eyes. The book was "Gallop ," the technology was
Scanimation(R), and the result was a bestseller. Now we're back
with another dazzling idea, and this time for the whole family: The
book is "Safari," it uses never-before-seen Photicular technology,
and the result is breathtaking. "Safari "is a magical journey.
Readers, as if on safari, encounter eight wild animals that come
alive. Using an innovative lenticular-based technology, precision
sliding lenses, and original four-color video imagery, each image
is like a 3-D movie on the page, delivering a rich, fluid,
immersive visual experience. The cheetah bounds. The gazelle leaps.
The African elephant snaps its ears. The gorilla munches the leaves
off a branch. It's mesmerizing, as visually immediate as a National
Geographic or Animal Planet special.Accompanying the images is"
Safari," the guide: It begins with an evocative journal of a safari
along the Mara River in Kenya and interweaves the history of
safaris. Then for each animal there is a lively, informative essay
and an at-a-glance list of important facts. It's the romance of
being on safari--and the almost visceral thrill of seeing the
animals in motion-- in a book unlike any other.
The bestselling series meets a bestselling subject. The Photicular
books, created through their patented technology, are not only
magic to look at but magic to sell. With over two million copies in
print and a robust backlist presence, the series ships over 300,000
copies a year. Next up comes a title that's an instant wow:
Dinosaur, a celebration of everyone's favourite prehistoric beasts.
We see their bones in museums. We pore over their imagined
likenesses in books. We love movies that bring them to the big
screen. Now, see dinosaurs come to life as if you were traveling on
an expedition a hundred million years back in time. Using extremely
lifelike animation, Dinosaur shows us a herd of giant
sauroposeidons, with their impossibly long necks, lumbering across
the sun-drenched plains eons and eons ago. Two angry triceratops
preparing to lock horns. A threatened velociraptor standing tall,
waving its wildly feathered arms. And, almost tenderly, a pair of
duck-billed parasauropholuses feeling spring in the air and
nuzzling. Flipping through these pages is as close as we'll ever
get to watching actual footage from earth's distant past. The
informative and lively text by science writer Kathy Wollard then
brings us even closer through its insights and setting-the-scene
storytelling. With T. rex roaring on the cover, Dinosaur is utterly
irresistible.
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