The Book of Barely Imagined Beings: A 21st Century Bestiary - Hardcover

Caspar Henderson

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9781847081728: The Book of Barely Imagined Beings: A 21st Century Bestiary

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ISBN 10: 184708172X ISBN 13: 9781847081728

Publisher: Granta, 2012

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From Axolotl to Zebrafish, meet a world of barely imagined beings: real creatures that are often stranger and more astonishing than anything dreamt in the pages of a medieval bestiary. Ranging from the depths of the ocean to the most arid corners of the earth, Caspar Henderson captures the beauty and bizarreness of the many living forms we thought we knew and some we could never have contemplated, and invites us to better imagine the world around us. An extraordinary, vivid combination of natural history, spiritual primer and philosophical meditation, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings is a mind-expanding, wonder-inducing read.

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Eloquent as well as encyclopaedic, witty and warm, Caspar Henderson is the perfect companion for this tour of the strange and beautiful. --Times Literary Supplement

This is a bestiary and it's the loveliest one I ve seen for a while. Caspar Henderson calls it 'a 21st Century Bestiary', and it is - the descriptions of the creatures in question are up-to-date. But the illustrations, by Golbanou Moghaddas, are wonderfully Victorian. Henderson looks at these animals with a sensibility that makes you see them anew. --Evening Standard

It is a glorious celebration of our extraordinary world, presented in a gorgeous volume and exuding wit and charm. --Nature blog

About the Author:

Caspar Henderson has been a journalist and editor with various publications and broadcasters, including BBC Radio 4, the Financial Times, the Independent, Nature, New Scientist and openDemocracy ( where he was senior editor for three years). He is a past recipient of an IUCN-Reuters award for best environmental reporting in Western Europe. He co-authored Our Fragile Earth (2005, New Internationalist) and was the commissioning editor for Debating Globalization (2005, Polity).

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