From the authors of A Gap in Nature, a breathtaking visual adventure showcasing ninety of the world's most astounding creatures. Sumptuous birds of...
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May 01, 2007
Sara
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DO judge this book by its cover--its awesome, cute, delightful cover. Look at that guy they put on the front. Hello. There are more illustrations inside which are just like the one on the front here except of other cute and weird animals. There is also some good descriptive writing that just might astonish you! I heart astonishing animals.
May 22, 2011
Nate
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Great! I love the combo of Flannery & Schouten. I couldn't figure out which one was the fake though.
Dec 26, 2010
Ilya
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This book has portraits of 97 vertebrate animals and a short essay about each. They are some of the bizarrest vertebrates in the world, including a blind salamander from Slovenian caves that survived without food in a fridge for 12 years, several species of oddly shaped ghostpipefish from Australian reefs, a blind freshwater dolphin from the Indus river, the world's smallest mammal (a bumblebee-sized bat), lizard, frog, bird, and more. The preface says that of the 97 species, one is fictitious;
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