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Numéro de l'objet eBay :266301147773
Caractéristiques de l'objet
- État
- Brand
- Unbranded
- Personalize
- No
- Literary Movement
- Naturalism
- Signed
- No
- Ex Libris
- No
- MPN
- Does not apply
- Original Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Inscribed
- No
- ISBN
- 9780226568706
- Book Title
- Relics : Travels in Nature's Time Machine
- Item Length
- 9.6 in
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Publication Year
- 2011
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.2 in
- Genre
- Nature, Science
- Topic
- Environmental Conservation & Protection, General, Ecology, Life Sciences / Biology
- Item Width
- 9.8 in
- Item Weight
- 51.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 384 Pages
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Product Information
On any night in early June, if you stand on the right beaches of America's East Coast, you can travel back in time all the way to the Jurassic. For as you watch, thousands of horseshoe crabs will emerge from the foam and scuttle up the beach to their spawning grounds, as they've done, nearly unchanged, for more than 440 million years. Horseshoe crabs are far from the only contemporary manifestation of Earth's distant past, and in Relics , world-renowned zoologist and photographer Piotr Naskrecki leads readers on an unbelievable journey through those lingering traces of a lost world. With camera in hand, he travels the globe to create a words-and-pictures portrait of our planet like no other, a time-lapse tour that renders Earth's colossal age comprehensible, visible in creatures and habitats that have persisted, nearly untouched, for hundreds of millions of years. Naskrecki begins by defining the concept of a relic--a creature or habitat that, while acted upon by evolution, remains remarkably similar to its earliest manifestations in the fossil record. Then he pulls back the Cambrian curtain to reveal relic after eye-popping relic: katydids, ancient reptiles, horsetail ferns, majestic magnolias, and more, all depicted through stunning photographs and first-person accounts of Naskrecki's time studying them and watching their interactions in their natural habitats. Then he turns to the habitats themselves, traveling to such remote locations as the Atewa Plateau of Africa, the highlands of Papua New Guinea, and the lush forests of the Guyana Shield of South America--a group of relatively untrammeled ecosystems that are the current end point of staggeringly long, uninterrupted histories that have made them our best entryway to understanding what the prehuman world looked, felt, sounded, and even smelled like. The stories and images of Earth's past assembled in Relics are beautiful, breathtaking, and unmooring, plunging the reader into the hitherto incomprehensible reaches of deep time. We emerge changed, astonished by the unbroken skein of life on Earth and attentive to the hidden heritage of our planet's past that surrounds us.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226568709
ISBN-13
9780226568706
eBay Product ID (ePID)
116653999
Product Key Features
Book Title
Relics : Travels in Nature's Time Machine
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Environmental Conservation & Protection, General, Ecology, Life Sciences / Biology
Publication Year
2011
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Nature, Science
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Width
9.8 in
Item Weight
51.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
Qh75.N293 2011
Reviews
" Relics is bursting with excitement. . . . Naskrecki is a solid scientists, a talented photographer, and a writer to emulate--this is the whole package in a book with a killer cover to boot."-- Bookslut, "Piotr Naskrecki's new book is not easy to read. Physically, I mean. I have wanted to review this book for some time. After all, Piotr Naskrecki is a leading conservation photographer and katydid biologist, and I loved Naskrecki's last book. But I had to concentrate hard to stay focused on the text. The trouble is Relics comprises page after page of the most jaw-droppingly spectacular nature photography you've ever seen. No matter how compelling Naskrecki's prose, no matter how insightful his observations or unexpectedly charming his facts, his words reluctantly share pages with his starkly beautiful images of life with all its teeth and colors and scales and spiny legs. Spiders that look like floppy muppets. Crickets with edible wings. Expectant frog fathers. Killer katydids. Oh, and something called a 'Dinospider.' Yeah."--Alex Wild , Scientific American, "Piotr Naskrecki''s new book is not easy to read. Physically, I mean. I have wanted to review this book for some time. After all, Piotr Naskrecki is a leading conservation photographer and katydid biologist, and I loved Naskrecki's last book. But I had to concentrate hard to stay focused on the text. The trouble is Relics comprises page after page of the most jaw-droppingly spectacular nature photography you've ever seen. No matter how compelling Naskrecki''s prose, no matter how insightful his observations or unexpectedly charming his facts, his words reluctantly share pages with his starkly beautiful images of life with all its teeth and colors and scales and spiny legs. Spiders that look like floppy muppets. Crickets with edible wings. Expectant frog fathers. Killer katydids. Oh, and something called a ''Dinospider.'' Yeah."--Alex Wild , Scientific American, Relics is an exciting, adventure-filled, and scientifically important presentation by one of the world's best naturalists and photographers., " Relics is an exciting, adventure-filled, and scientifically important presentation by one of the world''s best naturalists and photographers."--Edward O. Wilson, Embedded in this showcase book of exotic plants and animals is a plea to preserve what's left of the planet's evolutionary history., "Embedded in this showcase book of exotic plants and animals is a plea to preserve what''s left of the planet''s evolutionary history."-- Seattle Times, " Relics is an exciting, adventure-filled, and scientifically important presentation by one of the world''s best naturalists and photographers."-E. O. Wilson, "Piotr Naskrecki's new book is not easy to read. Physically, I mean. I have wanted to review this book for some time. After all, Piotr Naskrecki is a leading conservation photographer and katydid biologist, and I loved Naskrecki's last book. But I had to concentrate hard to stay focused on the text. The trouble is Relics comprises page after page of the most jaw-droppingly spectacular nature photography you've ever seen. No matter how compelling Naskrecki's prose, no matter how insightful his observations or unexpectedly charming his facts, his words reluctantly share pages with his starkly beautiful images of life with all its teeth and colors and scales and spiny legs. Spiders that look like floppy muppets. Crickets with edible wings. Expectant frog fathers. Killer katydids. Oh, and something called a 'Dinospider.' Yeah."--Alex Wild , Scientific American, " Relics is an exciting, adventure-filled, and scientifically important presentation by one of the world''s best naturalist and photographers."--Edward O. Wilson, Relics is bursting with excitement. . . . Naskrecki is a solid scientists, a talented photographer, and a writer to emulate--this is the whole package in a book with a killer cover to boot.
Table of Content
Foreword by Cristina Goettsch Mittermeier Introduction The Land of the Unexpected Travels in the Meddle Earth Mother's Care The Southern Kingdom The Rain Queen's Garden Atewa Guiana Shield The Yin and Yang of the Notoptera The Great Ocean Escape In the Sagebrush A Walk in the Estabrook Woods A Word about Photography Acknowledgments Notes Index
Copyright Date
2011
Lccn
2011-004413
Dewey Decimal
333.95/16
Dewey Edition
22
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