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The Modern Bestiary: A Curated Collection of Wondrous Wildlife de Joanna Bagniewska

The Modern Bestiary: A Curated Collection of Wondrous Wildlife

Autor Joanna Bagniewska
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 26 sep 2022
'Everyone who loves wildlife - especially fantastically weird and cringingly gross wildlife - should read this masterful book'
MARK CARWARDINE

From the familiar to the improbable, the gross to the endearing, The Modern Bestiary is a compendium of curious creatures. It contains well-known species told from new, unexpected angles (rats that drive cars; fish that communicate by passing wind), as well as stranger and lesser-known creatures, including cross-dressing cuttlefish and mouse-like marsupials that literally mate themselves to death. Finally, there are the 'aliens on Earth' - the incredible, the surreal, the magical - such as tardigrades, tongue-eating lice and immortal jellyfish, creatures so astonishing that they make unicorns look rather commonplace.

With illustrations by Jennifer N. R. Smith

'This is a book to adore'
TOM MOORHOUSE
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ISBN-13: 9781588347305
ISBN-10: 1588347303
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 142 x 219 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Editura: Smithsonian Books (DC)

Notă biografică

Dr Joanna Bagniewska is a zoologist and science communicator. She completed her undergraduate degree at Jacobs University Bremen and Rice University in Houston, and obtained her MSc and doctorate from the University of Oxford's zoology department. After a stint at a start-up company, where she trained bees to detect illegal substances, Joanna went on to lecture at Nottingham Trent University and the University of Reading. Her academic interests include conservation biology, behavioural ecology and the intersection of technology and zoology. Joanna has worked on a range of species, ranging from wombats and wallabies to mole-rats and jackals. She currently splits her time between two roles: senior lecturer in environmental sciences at Brunel University London, and communications and public engagement officer at the University of Oxford's Department of Paediatrics. This is her first book.

Jennifer N. R. Smith is an award-winning illustrator and the director of WonderTheory Studio, based in Bristol. She studied Drawing at Camberwell, UAL, and is also a qualified scientific and medical illustrator, using her creative and technical training in tandem to evoke the wild wonders of the natural world.

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'Everyone who loves wildlife - especially fantastically weird and cringingly gross wildlife - should read this masterful book.'
Mark Carwardine

'This modern bestiary is a magnificent miscellany that will amuse and amaze. From butterflies that make crocodiles cry and penis-fencing slugs to fish that live inside sea cucumbers' bottoms - the natural world is stranger than you could ever imagine.'
George McGavin

'If ever there was a book that highlighted the bewildering wonders of the natural world, and the need for their conservation, this is it.'
Michael Brooke

'This is a book to adore.'
Tom Moorhouse