Animal
July 21st 2006 09:16
If you're on the lookout for a mighty fine reference book than you couldn't go past this book from DK and the Smithsonian Institute.
It's a big ol' book and fairly weighty but it presents all it's wares in an easy-to-read fashion and there are LOTS of pictures. Which is what we like. Oh yes we do.
Okay, so I love animals... passing this review off as anything more than that would be a futile exercise in me lying to myself. I bought this mainly because it has a photograph of pretty much every mammal currently in existence - it's exhaustive! From BOTH kinds of echidnas right up to all the various whales and rodents and monkeys and pangolins. I love mammals.
Then there's a big section on birds, followed by reptiles, amphibians, fish of all kinds, and the various molluscs, insects, arachnids and other inveterbrates that make up our amazingly diverse animal kingdom.
It's like owning your own private zoo, each animal is presented alongside it's vital statistics, location in the world, how endangered it is and a brief rundown of it's general lifestyle. There are also more detailed write ups on the families and orders each group of animals belongs to and it's all so fascinating, fascinating, fascinating!
The front proclaims 'The Definitive Visual Guide to the World's Wildlife' and I'm inclined to agree. I've been working in bookstores for a few years now and I'm yet to see anything that matches this book. Go get it! It's cool!
Animal!
It's a big ol' book and fairly weighty but it presents all it's wares in an easy-to-read fashion and there are LOTS of pictures. Which is what we like. Oh yes we do.
Okay, so I love animals... passing this review off as anything more than that would be a futile exercise in me lying to myself. I bought this mainly because it has a photograph of pretty much every mammal currently in existence - it's exhaustive! From BOTH kinds of echidnas right up to all the various whales and rodents and monkeys and pangolins. I love mammals.
Then there's a big section on birds, followed by reptiles, amphibians, fish of all kinds, and the various molluscs, insects, arachnids and other inveterbrates that make up our amazingly diverse animal kingdom.
It's like owning your own private zoo, each animal is presented alongside it's vital statistics, location in the world, how endangered it is and a brief rundown of it's general lifestyle. There are also more detailed write ups on the families and orders each group of animals belongs to and it's all so fascinating, fascinating, fascinating!
The front proclaims 'The Definitive Visual Guide to the World's Wildlife' and I'm inclined to agree. I've been working in bookstores for a few years now and I'm yet to see anything that matches this book. Go get it! It's cool!
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