Cara Giaimo
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Leaving the Ocean Was a Mistake
Have you ever just wanted to walk into the sea? Earth?s weirdest creatures are ready to welcome you with this funny, giftable book of advice for improving your life on land.If you sometimes wish to simply sink back into the depths of the ocean, great news?the strange little guys who still live down there will receive you with open arms (and fins, claws, and tentacles). But if you?re not quite ready to take to the sea, they?ve also got some solid advice for those cursed to live on land.In Leaving the Ocean Was a Mistake, sixty bizarre and beautiful marine creatures offer their best tips for self-confidence, serenity, and fulfillment?drawn from real-life facts about our fascinating natural world. Get to know these friendly denizens of the deep:The sea squirt, which avoids anxiety?by digesting its own brainThe grumpy octopus, which asserts its boundaries?by throwing dirt at anyone who bothers itThe fire-breathing shrimp, which gets its feelings out?by vomiting bioluminescent gooThe deep-sea anglerfish, which expresses love?by fusing with its mateAnd more wonderfully wacky undersea weirdos who really know how to live!Beautifully illustrated with charming watercolor portraits of the ocean?s most eccentric creatures, Leaving the Ocean Was a Mistake may make you long to return to the sea?but it will also help you bring a freewheeling, relaxed, self-actualized ocean spirit to even the driest life.
Atlas Obscura: Přírodní divy
Naše planeta je plná fascinujících jevů, organismů a neuvěřitelných stvoření. Poznejte je v této monumentální publikaci, která obsahuje více než 500 výjimečných rostlin, živočichů a přírodních divů, doplněných o ilustrace a fotografie. Čeká vás cesta od nehostinných antarktických pouští přes bujné džungle až do oceánských hlubin i do srdce nejrušnějších měst. Ať už se vydáváte na dobrodružství z pohodlí domova, nebo plánujete vlastní expedici, atlas vám ukáže svět ve všech jeho barvách.
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Atlas Obscura: Wild Life
From the bestselling authors of Atlas Obscura and Gastro Obscura comes a nature book like no other—a dazzling, over-the-top collection of the world’s most extraordinary wild species that takes you to all seven continents and beyond. It’s more than a field guide–it’s an adventure. From the curious minds of Atlas Obscura, authors of #1 New York Times bestselling Atlas Obscura and Gastro Obscura, comes an unputdownable celebration of the world’s living wonders.
- Learn how dung beetles navigate by the stars, and trees communicate through their roots.
- Meet one of the strongest animals in the world: the puny peacock mantis shrimp.
- Pay your respects to a 44,000 year old shrub, float along flying rivers, and explore a garbage dump overseen by endangered storks.
- Examine old examples of bird song notation written on sheet music.
- Also, first person interviews: hear from a honey hunter and his avian partners, a scientist working to find the world’s only ocean-dwelling insects, and an offshore radio DJ who is at the heart of the local fishing community.
Featuring over 500 extraordinary plants, animals, and natural phenomena, with illustrations and photos on every page, the book takes readers around the globe—from Antarctic deserts to lush jungles, and into the deepest fathoms of the ocean and the hearts of our densest cities. Teeming with detail and wildly entertaining, Wild Life reinvigorates our sense of wonder, awe and amazement about the incredible creatures we share our planet with.
