Where The Animals Go: Tracking Wildlife with Technology in 50 Maps and Graphics
Autor James Cheshire, Oliver Ubertien Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 aug 2018
Once tracking animals meant following footprints. Now satellites, drones, camera traps, cellphone networks, apps and accelerometers allow us to see the natural world as never before. For the first time, this book lets you follow the journeys of seals, sharks, elephants, bumble bees, owls and wolves all over the world. Open it, and go where the animals go.
'This is a special kind of detective story'New Scientist
'This book is beautiful as well as informative and inspiring. There is no doubt it will help in our fight to save wildlife and wild habitats'Dr Jane Goodall
'Beautiful and thrilling ... a joy to study cover to cover' E. O. Wilson
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780141982229
ISBN-10: 0141982225
Pagini: 174
Dimensiuni: 246 x 277 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.83 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0141982225
Pagini: 174
Dimensiuni: 246 x 277 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.83 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Notă biografică
James
Cheshire
and
Oliver
Uberti's
complementary
skills
enable
them
to
produce
graphics
and
book
pages
that
few
others
can
match.
As
a
lecturer
at
University
College
London,
James
applies
his
cartographic
and
programming
skills
to
the
staggering
amount
of
data
that
scientists
are
now
collecting.
In
2017,
he
was
awarded
the
Royal
Geographical
Society's
Cuthbert
Peek
Award
in
recognition
of
his
work
'advancing
geographical
knowledge
through
the
use
of
mappable
Big
Data'.
Oliver
has
more
than
a
decade
of
experience
visualizing
and
writing
about
wildlife
research-from
2003
to
2012,
he
worked
in
the
design
department
ofNational
Geographic,
most
recently
as
Senior
Design
Editor.
Recenzii
This
is
a
special
kind
of
detective
story.
After
millennia
of
using
footprints,
faeces,
feathers,
broken
foliage
and
nests
to
track
animals,
the
process
is
now
so
teched
up
you
need
to
read
this
book
to
find
out
the
how,
what
and
why
Each story is a striking example of how innovative technology can be used to increase our understanding of the natural world
This book is beautiful as well as informative and inspiring. There is no doubt it will help in our fight to save wildlife and wild habitats
Enchanting and exhilarating ...Where the Animals Gois an eye-opening exercise in perspective that puts place and space at the heart of the 21st-century conservation debate
Turn the pages to revel in the techno-tracking that is revealing the secrets of animal lives. This is science at its best, the art of understanding truth and beauty
From the first page, this book is an enthralling look at the world that technology can help us uncover. [...] I can't review this book without mentioning the maps, which are exquisite. They convey an astounding quantity and quality of information
Beautiful and thrilling ... a joy to study cover to cover
A stunning translation of movement onto paper
Its double intent is brilliant - to bring each of us closer to the animal world and to highlight fresh ways to think about conservation...Downright gorgeous in its illustrations and text ... an exceptional book
An unstoppable book that will please anyone with an interest in the natural world
Where the Animals Goelegantly elucidates the role new technologies has played in expanding our knowledge of animal migration
[Praise for London: The Information Capital]Visually stunning maps and graphics
[Praise for London: The Information Capital]Brilliantly compelling...The InformationCapitalis a tour de force in the modern use of graphics to make a point
[Praise for London: The Information Capital]The book is infinitely compelling, one you'll return to time and again, and full of 'wow, you have to see this' moments. It reinforces the notion that information really can be beautiful...
Each story is a striking example of how innovative technology can be used to increase our understanding of the natural world
This book is beautiful as well as informative and inspiring. There is no doubt it will help in our fight to save wildlife and wild habitats
Enchanting and exhilarating ...Where the Animals Gois an eye-opening exercise in perspective that puts place and space at the heart of the 21st-century conservation debate
Turn the pages to revel in the techno-tracking that is revealing the secrets of animal lives. This is science at its best, the art of understanding truth and beauty
From the first page, this book is an enthralling look at the world that technology can help us uncover. [...] I can't review this book without mentioning the maps, which are exquisite. They convey an astounding quantity and quality of information
Beautiful and thrilling ... a joy to study cover to cover
A stunning translation of movement onto paper
Its double intent is brilliant - to bring each of us closer to the animal world and to highlight fresh ways to think about conservation...Downright gorgeous in its illustrations and text ... an exceptional book
An unstoppable book that will please anyone with an interest in the natural world
Where the Animals Goelegantly elucidates the role new technologies has played in expanding our knowledge of animal migration
[Praise for London: The Information Capital]Visually stunning maps and graphics
[Praise for London: The Information Capital]Brilliantly compelling...The InformationCapitalis a tour de force in the modern use of graphics to make a point
[Praise for London: The Information Capital]The book is infinitely compelling, one you'll return to time and again, and full of 'wow, you have to see this' moments. It reinforces the notion that information really can be beautiful...