Author: Natural History Museum (London, England)
Publisher: White Lion Publishing
ISBN: 9780565092504
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A collection of photographic images featuring natural subjects. It includes around 100 specially selected photographs with captions that explain where and how each image was taken, feature a wide range of natural subjects - from the various scenes of animal behaviour to different landscapes - showing just how wonderful wildlife on Earth is.
Wild Planet
Author: Natural History Museum (London, England)
Publisher: White Lion Publishing
ISBN: 9780565092504
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A collection of photographic images featuring natural subjects. It includes around 100 specially selected photographs with captions that explain where and how each image was taken, feature a wide range of natural subjects - from the various scenes of animal behaviour to different landscapes - showing just how wonderful wildlife on Earth is.
Publisher: White Lion Publishing
ISBN: 9780565092504
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A collection of photographic images featuring natural subjects. It includes around 100 specially selected photographs with captions that explain where and how each image was taken, feature a wide range of natural subjects - from the various scenes of animal behaviour to different landscapes - showing just how wonderful wildlife on Earth is.
Wild In The City
Author: Lonely Planet Kids
Publisher: Lonely Planet
ISBN: 1788686586
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Discover the secret lives of more than 30 extraordinary creatures that share our cities. From red foxes sneaking rides on London buses to leopards prowling the backstreets of Mumbai, this book explores the clever ways animals have adapted to the urban environment and explains how you can help protect our wild neighbours. Crammed with buildings, traffic and people, urban spaces are the last place you'd expect to see wildlife. But all kinds of animals live alongside us in the hidden corners of our towns and cities - from teeny ants living under pavement cracks to pick-pocketing monkeys and spotted hyenas being fed by locals. Within these pages, you'll travel from city to city, across six different continents, meeting just some of these amazing animals. There are tips on where and when you might see them, what signs to look for and how you can help make our cities more nature-friendly places. You'll also see the conservation status of each animal, from those of least concern to species which are endangered. About Lonely Planet Kids: Lonely Planet Kids - an imprint of the world's leading travel authority Lonely Planet - published its first book in 2011. Over the past 45 years, Lonely Planet has grown a dedicated global community of travellers, many of whom are now sharing a passion for exploration with their children. Lonely Planet Kids educates and encourages young readers at home and in school to learn about the world with engaging books on culture, sociology, geography, nature, history, space and more. We want to inspire the next generation of global citizens and help kids and their parents to approach life in a way that makes every day an adventure. Come explore! Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.
Publisher: Lonely Planet
ISBN: 1788686586
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Discover the secret lives of more than 30 extraordinary creatures that share our cities. From red foxes sneaking rides on London buses to leopards prowling the backstreets of Mumbai, this book explores the clever ways animals have adapted to the urban environment and explains how you can help protect our wild neighbours. Crammed with buildings, traffic and people, urban spaces are the last place you'd expect to see wildlife. But all kinds of animals live alongside us in the hidden corners of our towns and cities - from teeny ants living under pavement cracks to pick-pocketing monkeys and spotted hyenas being fed by locals. Within these pages, you'll travel from city to city, across six different continents, meeting just some of these amazing animals. There are tips on where and when you might see them, what signs to look for and how you can help make our cities more nature-friendly places. You'll also see the conservation status of each animal, from those of least concern to species which are endangered. About Lonely Planet Kids: Lonely Planet Kids - an imprint of the world's leading travel authority Lonely Planet - published its first book in 2011. Over the past 45 years, Lonely Planet has grown a dedicated global community of travellers, many of whom are now sharing a passion for exploration with their children. Lonely Planet Kids educates and encourages young readers at home and in school to learn about the world with engaging books on culture, sociology, geography, nature, history, space and more. We want to inspire the next generation of global citizens and help kids and their parents to approach life in a way that makes every day an adventure. Come explore! Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.
Wild about Planet Earth
Author: Anna Claybourne
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781786178299
Category : Earth (Planet)
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
In Wild About Planet Earth your child will take a journey across our planet and discover a wealth of natural wonders. From the highest mountain to the deepest ocean, this book will reveal all that is incredible about Earth - and what things we can do to help preserve it. Bursting with fantastic facts and stunning illustrations, the engaging text is presented in bite-size paragraphs alongside fun facts, cartoons, quizzes and activities.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781786178299
Category : Earth (Planet)
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
In Wild About Planet Earth your child will take a journey across our planet and discover a wealth of natural wonders. From the highest mountain to the deepest ocean, this book will reveal all that is incredible about Earth - and what things we can do to help preserve it. Bursting with fantastic facts and stunning illustrations, the engaging text is presented in bite-size paragraphs alongside fun facts, cartoons, quizzes and activities.
Lonely Planet's Wild World
Author: Lonely Planet
Publisher: Lonely Planet
ISBN: 1743609833
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
From Lonely Planet, the world's leading travel guide publisher, Wild World, the follow-up to the super-sized bestseller Beautiful World, is a vivid and compelling portrait of the world in which we live. Featuring breath-taking images of the natural world, this gorgeous collection of full-page photographs, carefully curated by Lonely Planet's photography experts, brings the world's wildest corners into your home. Incredible and majestic wildlife spectacles and natural phenomena are spellbindingly on display in this beautiful, no-expense-spared hardback. Authors: Lonely Planet About Lonely Planet: Since 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel media company with guidebooks to every destination, an award-winning website, mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet covers must-see spots but also enables curious travellers to get off beaten paths to understand more of the culture of the places in which they find themselves. 'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves; it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' -- Fairfax Media 'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' - New York Times Lonely Planet guides have won the TripAdvisor Traveler's Choice Award in 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015. Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.
Publisher: Lonely Planet
ISBN: 1743609833
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
From Lonely Planet, the world's leading travel guide publisher, Wild World, the follow-up to the super-sized bestseller Beautiful World, is a vivid and compelling portrait of the world in which we live. Featuring breath-taking images of the natural world, this gorgeous collection of full-page photographs, carefully curated by Lonely Planet's photography experts, brings the world's wildest corners into your home. Incredible and majestic wildlife spectacles and natural phenomena are spellbindingly on display in this beautiful, no-expense-spared hardback. Authors: Lonely Planet About Lonely Planet: Since 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel media company with guidebooks to every destination, an award-winning website, mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet covers must-see spots but also enables curious travellers to get off beaten paths to understand more of the culture of the places in which they find themselves. 'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves; it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' -- Fairfax Media 'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' - New York Times Lonely Planet guides have won the TripAdvisor Traveler's Choice Award in 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015. Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.
Animal Planet: Wild Baby Animals Coloring Book
Author: Editors of Silver Dolphin Books
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1645176770
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Hours upon hours of coloring and activity fun featuring amazing and adorable wild baby animals! The Animal Planet: Wild Baby Animals Coloring Book is 224 pages packed with baby gorillas, lion cubs, young crocodiles, newly hatched owls, and many more baby animals that are born and grow up in the wild. This book is chock-full of pages to color, mazes, matching, spot the difference, drawing, and other activities, and it includes dozens of fascinating facts, too.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1645176770
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Hours upon hours of coloring and activity fun featuring amazing and adorable wild baby animals! The Animal Planet: Wild Baby Animals Coloring Book is 224 pages packed with baby gorillas, lion cubs, young crocodiles, newly hatched owls, and many more baby animals that are born and grow up in the wild. This book is chock-full of pages to color, mazes, matching, spot the difference, drawing, and other activities, and it includes dozens of fascinating facts, too.
Wild Planet
Author: Tom Clynes
Publisher: Thomson Gale
ISBN: 9780787603731
Category : Current events
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Lists and discusses festivals, celebrations, ceremonies, and gatherings worldwide, including information on dates, transportation, and accommodations.
Publisher: Thomson Gale
ISBN: 9780787603731
Category : Current events
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Lists and discusses festivals, celebrations, ceremonies, and gatherings worldwide, including information on dates, transportation, and accommodations.
Wild Things, Wild Places
Author: Jane Alexander
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0385354363
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
A moving, inspiring, personal look at the vastly changing world of wildlife on planet earth as a result of human incursion, and the crucial work of animal and bird preservation across the globe being done by scientists, field biologists, zoologists, environmentalists, and conservationists. From a longtime, much-admired activist, impassioned wildlife proponent and conservationist, former chairperson of the National Endowment for the Arts, four time Academy Award nominee, and Tony Award and two-time Emmy Award-winning actress. In Wild Things, Wild Places, Jane Alexander movingly, with a clear eye and a knowing, keen grasp of the issues and on what is being done in conservation and the worlds of science to help the planet's most endangered species to stay alive and thrive, writes of her steady and fervent immersion into the worlds of wildlife conservation, of her coming to know the scientists throughout the world--to her, the prophets in the wilderness--who are steeped in this work, of her travels with them--and on her own--to the most remote and forbidding areas of the world as they try to save many species, including ourselves.
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0385354363
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
A moving, inspiring, personal look at the vastly changing world of wildlife on planet earth as a result of human incursion, and the crucial work of animal and bird preservation across the globe being done by scientists, field biologists, zoologists, environmentalists, and conservationists. From a longtime, much-admired activist, impassioned wildlife proponent and conservationist, former chairperson of the National Endowment for the Arts, four time Academy Award nominee, and Tony Award and two-time Emmy Award-winning actress. In Wild Things, Wild Places, Jane Alexander movingly, with a clear eye and a knowing, keen grasp of the issues and on what is being done in conservation and the worlds of science to help the planet's most endangered species to stay alive and thrive, writes of her steady and fervent immersion into the worlds of wildlife conservation, of her coming to know the scientists throughout the world--to her, the prophets in the wilderness--who are steeped in this work, of her travels with them--and on her own--to the most remote and forbidding areas of the world as they try to save many species, including ourselves.
Wild Things
Author: Lonely Planet Kids
Publisher: Lonely Planet
ISBN: 1788685814
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Have you ever wanted to find fairies in the garden, meet a unicorn, ride a dragon or share a picnic with a mermaid? Just because you've never seen these magical creatures doesn't mean they don't exist! The Wild Things of stories and the imagination are everywhere, but they're shy, secretive, sometimes camouflaged and only reveal themselves to true believers. This fantastical guidebook will help you track dragons, create fairy fashions, brew magic potions, build snow unicorns, discover trolls and go on night hunts to capture moon magic. Search forests, meadows, fields, ponds, rivers and the seaside, as well as everyday places like school playgrounds, local parks or among the pots on the patio. You can discover the mysteries of nature all year round and at any time of day or night. So switch your imagination on, use your senses, brush up on your magic skills and take a giant leap into the world of the Wild Things. Activities include: Tracking dragons Creating fairy fashions Brewing magic potions Building snow unicorns Discovering trolls Capturing moon magic Creating secret messages Making a magical spellbook Looking after the natural world Designing a witches' costume Creating your own broomstick Making wild mini worlds Bringing tree monsters to life Leaving trails of monster prints About Lonely Planet Kids: Lonely Planet Kids - an imprint of the world's leading travel authority Lonely Planet - published its first book in 2011. Over the past 45 years, Lonely Planet has grown a dedicated global community of travellers, many of whom are now sharing a passion for exploration with their children. Lonely Planet Kids educates and encourages young readers at home and in school to learn about the world with engaging books on culture, sociology, geography, nature, history, space and more. We want to inspire the next generation of global citizens and help kids and their parents to approach life in a way that makes every day an adventure. Come explore! Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.
Publisher: Lonely Planet
ISBN: 1788685814
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Have you ever wanted to find fairies in the garden, meet a unicorn, ride a dragon or share a picnic with a mermaid? Just because you've never seen these magical creatures doesn't mean they don't exist! The Wild Things of stories and the imagination are everywhere, but they're shy, secretive, sometimes camouflaged and only reveal themselves to true believers. This fantastical guidebook will help you track dragons, create fairy fashions, brew magic potions, build snow unicorns, discover trolls and go on night hunts to capture moon magic. Search forests, meadows, fields, ponds, rivers and the seaside, as well as everyday places like school playgrounds, local parks or among the pots on the patio. You can discover the mysteries of nature all year round and at any time of day or night. So switch your imagination on, use your senses, brush up on your magic skills and take a giant leap into the world of the Wild Things. Activities include: Tracking dragons Creating fairy fashions Brewing magic potions Building snow unicorns Discovering trolls Capturing moon magic Creating secret messages Making a magical spellbook Looking after the natural world Designing a witches' costume Creating your own broomstick Making wild mini worlds Bringing tree monsters to life Leaving trails of monster prints About Lonely Planet Kids: Lonely Planet Kids - an imprint of the world's leading travel authority Lonely Planet - published its first book in 2011. Over the past 45 years, Lonely Planet has grown a dedicated global community of travellers, many of whom are now sharing a passion for exploration with their children. Lonely Planet Kids educates and encourages young readers at home and in school to learn about the world with engaging books on culture, sociology, geography, nature, history, space and more. We want to inspire the next generation of global citizens and help kids and their parents to approach life in a way that makes every day an adventure. Come explore! Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.
The Wild World of the Future
Author: Claire Pye
Publisher: Firefly Books
ISBN: 9781552977255
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
A team of international scientists, documentary film makers and animators are imagining the future based on present-day science.
Publisher: Firefly Books
ISBN: 9781552977255
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
A team of international scientists, documentary film makers and animators are imagining the future based on present-day science.
Wild Lives
Author: Lori Robinson
Publisher: Skyhorse
ISBN: 1510713654
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Today we are faced with the alarming possibility that as many as 50 percent of species alive will become extinct within this century. This statistic is so staggering that scientists have begun to refer to the twenty-first century as the “sixth extinction.” But while this is alarming, all hope is not lost; conservation experts across the globe are working tirelessly to preserve our planet for future generations. In Wild Lives, twenty of these pioneers share their stories via exclusive interviews. Coming from different countries, diverse cultures, a variety of socio-economic backgrounds, and specializing in different species, all of these conservationists have an important characteristic in common: they have committed their lives to saving our planet and the majestic species that call it home. Some of these esteemed contributors include: Today we are faced with the staggering possibility that as many as 50 percent of species alive will become extinct within this century. This statistic is so staggering that scientists have begun to refer to the twenty-first century as the “sixth extinction.” But while this is alarming, all hope is not lost; conservation experts across the globe are working tirelessly to preserve our planet for future generations. •Beverly and Dereck Joubert, National Geographic filmmakers and big cat experts •Ric O’Barry, dolphin advocate and trainer of Flipper •George Schaller, famed field biologist and author •Yossi Leshem, Israeli ornithologist •Dominique Bikaba, gorilla activist •Paul Hilton, award-winning wildlife photographer Passionate and inspiring, Wild Lives is an important and timely reminder of the beauty and fragility of our world and the obligation that every person has towards preserving it.
Publisher: Skyhorse
ISBN: 1510713654
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Today we are faced with the alarming possibility that as many as 50 percent of species alive will become extinct within this century. This statistic is so staggering that scientists have begun to refer to the twenty-first century as the “sixth extinction.” But while this is alarming, all hope is not lost; conservation experts across the globe are working tirelessly to preserve our planet for future generations. In Wild Lives, twenty of these pioneers share their stories via exclusive interviews. Coming from different countries, diverse cultures, a variety of socio-economic backgrounds, and specializing in different species, all of these conservationists have an important characteristic in common: they have committed their lives to saving our planet and the majestic species that call it home. Some of these esteemed contributors include: Today we are faced with the staggering possibility that as many as 50 percent of species alive will become extinct within this century. This statistic is so staggering that scientists have begun to refer to the twenty-first century as the “sixth extinction.” But while this is alarming, all hope is not lost; conservation experts across the globe are working tirelessly to preserve our planet for future generations. •Beverly and Dereck Joubert, National Geographic filmmakers and big cat experts •Ric O’Barry, dolphin advocate and trainer of Flipper •George Schaller, famed field biologist and author •Yossi Leshem, Israeli ornithologist •Dominique Bikaba, gorilla activist •Paul Hilton, award-winning wildlife photographer Passionate and inspiring, Wild Lives is an important and timely reminder of the beauty and fragility of our world and the obligation that every person has towards preserving it.