The Illustrated Book of Wild Animals of the World

by William Bridges, Roy Chapman Andrews (Introduction), Mary Baker (Illustrator)

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Genres: Animals

184 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1948

About the author

b. 1901

Editor and curator of publications for the New York Zoological Society (1935-1966).

Reviews

[Jess the Shelf-Declared Bibliophile]

Beautiful drawings of the animals, and fun but informative paragraphs about each one. I occasionally came across inaccuracies, like for example, the mention that Tasmanian devils follow thylacines around while they hunt. Thylacines were declared extinct over a decade before this book was published, so apparently the author missed the memo. The author was also quite blasé about many subjects that are (thankfully) taboo these days, such as fur poaching, circus animals, and animal testing. I'm very glad the mindset has changed about these things so they are no longer considered normal or commonplace!

[Dixie]

One of the formative books of my childhood.